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Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement

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324 points rntn | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 17:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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vanderZwan ◴[18 Jul 25 18:22 UTC] No.44608123[source]▶
I admit that I am biased enough to immediately expect the AI agreement to be exactly what we need right now if this is how Meta reacts to it. Which I know is stupid because I genuinely have no idea what is in it.
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mhitza ◴[18 Jul 25 18:30 UTC] No.44608204[source]▶
There seem to be 3 chapters of this "AI Code of Practice" https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-c... and it's drafting history https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-code-pr...

I did not read it yet, only familiar with the previous AI Act https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/ .

If I'd were to guess Meta is going to have a problem with chapter 2 of "AI Code of Practice" because it deals with copyright law, and probably conflicts with their (and others approach) of ripping text out of copyrighted material (is it clear yet if it can be called fair use?)

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jahewson ◴[18 Jul 25 18:43 UTC] No.44608337[source]▶
> is it clear yet if it can be called fair use?

Yes.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyrig...

Though the EU has its own courts and laws.

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dmbche ◴[18 Jul 25 18:52 UTC] No.44608417[source]▶
District judge pretrial ruling on June 25th, I'd be surprised this doesn't get challenged soon in higher courts.

And acquiring the copyrighted materials is still illegal - this is not a blanket protection for all AI training on copyrighted materials

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1. zettabomb ◴[19 Jul 25 06:58 UTC] No.44613220[source]▶
Anthropic bought millions of books and scanned them, meaning that (at least for those sources) they were legally obtained. There has also been rampant piracy used to obtain similar material, which I won't defend. But it's not an absolute - training can be done on legally acquired material.