Meta said on Friday that it would not sign the EU’s new AI Code of Practice. Leaderships provide a framework for the European Union’s AI Act, which regularly enacted companies operating in the European Union.
The European Union Code of Conduct is voluntary, so the meta has no legal responsibility to sign it. Nevertheless, Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer, Joel Kapilin, made a point on Friday to knock on public guidelines. He described this code as “overcoming”.
Kapilin posted in a statement, “Europe is on the wrong path on AI.” “We have closely reviewed the European Commission’s Code of Conduct for General Porpos AI (GPAI) models and will not sign the meta. This code introduces several legal uncertainty for model developers, as well as measures that are far more than the scope of the AI Act.”
So, why was there no responsibility to kick any (public) turmoil about not signing anything? Well, this is not the first time that the company has fought against Europe’s AI rules. Earlier, he called the AI Act “unexpected”, “claiming” it goes too far “and” is hindering innovation and surpassing the developers. ” “In February, Meta’s Public Policy Director said,” The pure result of all of these is that the product is delayed or water is delayed and European citizens and consumers suffer. “
Out of the European Union seems to have a more capable goal for meta, because it has an anti -regulation ally in the White House. In April, President Trump pressured the European Union to abandon the AI Act. He described the rules as “a form of taxation”.
Mark Zuckerberg at Trump’s opening in January (Paul through getty images)
The European Union published its code of conduct on July 10. This includes solid guidelines to help companies follow the AI Act. In addition to other things, the code bans companies from training AI on pirate content and demands that they respect the requests of authors and artists so that they can quit their work from training data. It also requires developers to provide regular update documents by describing their AI features.
Although it is volunteer to sign the code of conduct, doing so can facilitate it. Agreeing with this can provide further legal protection to companies against future allegations of violation of the AI Act. European Commission spokesman for Digital Affairs, Thomas Regionier added more colors in a statement Bloomberg. He said that AI providers who do not sign it will have to “show other sources of compliance.” As a result, they may “face more regulatory scrutiny.”
Companies that violate the AI Act may face heavy fines. The European Commission can impose a fine of up to seven percent of the company’s annual sales. For advanced AI model makers, fines are three percent lower.
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