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Meta has refused to sign the European Union’s code of practice for its AI Act, weeks before the bloc’s rules for providers of general-purpose AI models take effect.

“Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI,” wrote Meta’s chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan in a post on LinkedIn. “We have carefully reviewed the European Commission’s Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models and Meta won’t be signing it. This Code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act.”

Tech companies from across the world, including those at the forefront of the AI race like Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Mistral AI have been fighting the rules, even urging the European Commission to delay its roll out. But the Commission has held firm, saying it will not change its timeline.

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They can get the fuck out of the EU market then

[–] Libb@piefed.social 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

I'm in ! Let's hope they will ban Meta. :)

[–] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

While I'm very happy to see it, what about Whatsapp users in the EU? Suckerberg knows that this is Meta's strong position, and that's why he insisted on not signing.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Whatsapp can fuck off too, for all i care. I’ll be happy to see it leave, so people can switch to something decent instead

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 1 points 4 days ago

Holy shit, what does it take to make it happen? At this point meta is like someone who has a curable cancer and can have it removed for free but instead is like "nah I enjoy slowly decaying and suffering"

They break law after law and get fined up the ass and the EU is like "yeah this is totally fine, let's keep supporting this criminal organization".

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

legal uncertainties

aka rules and regulations, and Zuck doesn't like that.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago
[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"We have carefully reviewed the European Commission's Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models and Meta won't be signing it.

No, you probably had your Meta AI ✨ read it and summarize it for you in like 3 bullet points because you losers put so much faith in your stupid overhyped hallucinating chatbots. I'm not in the EU but I hope this means they can't operate it there and free you EU citizens from that garbage.