Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement

There’s a summary of the guidelines here for anyone who is wondering:

https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/introduction-to-code-of...

It’s certainly onerous. I don’t see how it helps anyone except for big copyright holders, lawyers and bureaucrats.

These regulations may end up creating a trap for European companies.

Essentially, the goal is to establish a series of thresholds that result in significantly more complex and onerous compliance requirements, for example when a model is trained past a certain scale.

Burgeoning EU companies would be reluctant to cross any one of those thresholds and have to deal with sharply increased regulatory risks.

On the other hand, large corporations in the US or China are currently benefiting from a Darwinian ecosystem at home that allows them to evolve their frontier models at breakneck speed.

Those non-EU companies will then be able to enter the EU market with far more polished AI-based products and far deeper pockets to face any regulations.

And then they'll get fined a few billion anyway to cover the gap for no European tech to tax.

As an European, this sounds like an excellent solution.

US megatech funding our public infrastructure? Amazing. Especially after US attacked us with tarrifs.