I can answer that. A higher regulatory overhead that means less money for R&D and decreased profit margins for companies here in the EU. That's what's going to happen.
Regulation doesn't hinder innovation, it's just that CEOs want that quick buck instead of being responsible and using regulation for their advantage.
General statement that means zilch. Regulation depending on particular conditions can definitely curtail innovation or destroy it completely. Bureaucracy wants to regulate everything including how often we fart.
Thank god Xi Jinpeng has the best interests of Europe at heart...
Re. disclosure: How do they want to do it? It seems to be similar to a “disclosure” used in students’ works: “Source: internet”…
I think enforcing compliance with the law will be rather simple, just like it happened with GDPR, food labeling and many other regulations. But I wonder how will the disclaimers/declarations even be verified? The more I think about it the more I see open sourced (both dataset and weights) models as the only truly verifiable solution. And that makes it less attractive as a business foundation if. So we might end up with state-funded models working in similar fashion to museums it other culture/art institutions ensuring that original material creators are treated fair. But that will bring whole other set of challenges...
I remember European efforts to create search engine, digital library. And a lot of EU-funded projects in Horizon 2000 are useless, just an expensive bureaucracy…
GDPR and cookie consent bars are pain in the a* and ux/ui failures.
What I mean - intention is good, realisation is often bad. (But I don’t think that rest of world would be better btw :)
/end-of-rant
EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2
As models become more capable, this could have serious economic consequences. :(
From my reading, it seems that while cookie permissions first became an explicit EU law concept in a 2009 amendment to ePrivacy Directive (not GDPR), companies were able to get away with passive consent banners (not popups).
It was GDPR's new definition of consent which then retroactively strengthened the existing ePrivacy Directive cookie consent to explicitly require user action to give consent (i.e. popups, banners large enough to push users to interact with them, etc.).
Unless your point is that GDPR has nothing to do with popups because the companies could just not use non-strictly-necessary cookies and therefore not need a popup, but I think that's a stretch to jump from there to "nothing to do with GDPR".
https://wp-gdpr.eu/gdpr-cookie-consent-2026/
https://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2022/01/consent-and-cooki...
"Not a requirement under GDPR", yes, but certainly not "nothing to do with GDPR". It directly has to do with GDPR, in conjunction with business' decisions and how to comply with the law.
And of course, we can then argue our faces off about what's good and necessary in the world, in businesses and data protection, but saying it has nothing to do with it is just wrong.
quality regulations don't curtail innovation.
I repeat, if your business model (which like the big majority of the entrepreneurial world is based on) is against regulation, it's wrong.
I don't think it's acceptable to have a billionaire tech bro dictating everything I do in my life while he gets rich by selling my data. One of the reasons regulation exists is to protect customers.
It's about damn time the business world moved away from the capitalism mindset that you NEED to explore the consumer to be successful. We have a lot of examples in Europe where if the company is even a bit less shitty and is sympathetic to the customer, it increases trust and brings in more revenue because your customers trust it.
nor there is regulation to inform a user something uses AI or the dangers of being dependent on this magical oracle.
Well, there's the White House blocking models on a whim. I guess that's the closest they'll get to something resembling regulation.
The aviation industry must be one of the most regulated ones and it's entirely necessary to guarantee the safety of passengers and crew. You don't see anyone complaining about it except Boeing who failed QA in the past couple of years and killed some hundreds of people due to their oversight.
You can extend causality as far as you want if you're willing to sound like this in the open. If there were no cookies, there'd be no banners. There, found you a new target.
So on one side you have decent regulation that tries to balance the interest of the user without over regulating and becoming too prescriptive, and on the other side you have abusers who most of the times are actually in malicious non-compliance... and you find a way to blame the regulation.
Good thing it's in the rules that HN is not Reddit.
And yes, it is deliberate misinformation.
Some time after IE6 and Firefox and before Chrome, the default policy switched from "prompt" to "accept".
GDPR was an attempt to restore that default behavior, however no browser did so. I'd've guessed Mozilla could be convinced to revert, but Google presumably paid them enough to look the other way.
Moments ago it was "misunderstandings or malicious compliance". Did you misplace one on your apologetic quest?
I'm really trying not to assume the worst about you. Is there any reason you insist so much on giving the benefit of the doubt to every law breaker out there? Especially when we're sometimes talking about very deep pockets who can afford lawyers?
Well, you are. Maybe don't do that?