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From now on, companies across the EU must be clear about their use of AI.

Providers and deployers of AI must:

✔️ AI-generated content must carry a machine-readable mark
✔️ Deepfakes and AI text on public interest topics must be visibly labelled
✔️ When you chat with a bot or virtual agent, it must make clear it’s not a human
✔️ When AI is actively analysing you, companies must tell you

️We've published guidance to help companies comply.

Transparency helps build trust 👇

link.europa.eu/gTvhRX

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Is EC & EP prepared to enforce this (and is there any will to enforce this)?

I'm asking because regarding the game industry, games that comply with Steam AI disclosure policy upon disclosing AI use report lower customer interest.
I believe you can see here in the replies how people hate AI so it isn't unrealistic for companies to not disclose it.

So, are we prepared or even capable of enforcing it?

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So you're allowing companies to analyse user's behavior with "AI" as long as they mention it? Just like the cookie banner this will just abuse the majority of not tech savvy users who just blindly accept everything without being aware of what's really being done to them and give companies another get out of jail card, while doing nothing for users. How does a EU citizen exactly benefit from being analysed by "AI"?
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The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

Today, we launched a call for tenders to establish up to 7 AI Gigafactories across Europe, boosting Europe’s computing capacity and unlocking more than €30 billion in investment.

I am pleased to see Member States, industry, and the Commission coming together to build these facilities, which are key to strengthening our technological sovereignty.

This is a milestone for Europe in becoming an AI Continent.

link.europa.eu/qGDhv3


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Dear European Commission,

I appreciate the initiative, but I have concerns. Will the platform use AI to detect AI-generated content? As an artist whose work was trained on without consent for 20 years, detection tools now incorrectly flag my human-made art as "likely AI-generated" ( see: framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/1169… ).

What safeguards exist to prevent this?


For Instagram, my art is "Likely made with AI". Hard to be an artist in 2026...

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@chris Thank you. I see. I will read the details again.

In any case, if it is limited to forcing AI provider to watermark in UE, a workaround sounds very straightforward (even to a 12 years/old): a user could simply purchase a VPN, then generate AI in a region outside the EU without the imposed watermark, and then post back the result on EU networks without being flagged as AI.

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@davidrevoy I am not sure how it works. I didn't read the legal document but one avenue would be to require a company that operates in the EU to always mark the posts. But I don't know if the law is written that way.

Google already rolled out their watermarking but that is only in metadata. I think the EU demands that the watermark is visible.

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@davidrevoy

related story youtube.com/watch?v=OX1yHmeLPy… (video "The Kurzgesagt Situation is Insane")

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when EU will take care of Google monopolistic practicies?
There is almost no way to buy Android phone without GoogleMobileServices (GMS) GMS so intrusive that even EU countries GOVs Apps are dependend on them. Same with banking Apps.
GooglePay in GMS killed other contactless payment options. The ones that remains are dependent on GMS.
I'm so old that I remember when Microsoft was punished for preinstaling InternetExplorer. What Google is doing is worse.
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Hi @wod0bow. We regulate the gatekeeper power of large online platforms under the Digital Markets Act. In fact, we very recently fined Google €890 million for unfair search and app store practices You can read the press release here: link.europa.eu/vrNJTx
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AI is being used to exponentially massacre innocent people in Palestine, by EU-backed Israel:

"(it's) used to manufacture targets so that Israeli military forces can continue to bombard Gaza at an enormous rate, punishing the general Palestinian population." This includes "enabling the systematization of dropping a 2000 lb bomb into a home to kill one person and everybody around them".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assis…

Don't sponsor genocide. End the EU-Israel trade agreement.

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and yet your top officials spend between 90 and 100% of their meetings with those same #bigtech companies' lobbyists. And then you create these #omnibus #deregulation initiatives to make it easier for them to do what they want.

See page 15: corporateeurope.org/sites/defa…

Seems like the only thing preventing you from completely handing over the #EU to #bigTech are those pesky social interest groups you refuse to meet with and meddling citizens concerned about their rights and freedoms.

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> When AI is actively analysing you, companies must tell you

Yeah, because for-profit compagnies are so honest…

> Deepfakes and AI text on public interest topics must be visibly labelled

Obviously, fascists making up hateful and racist propaganda are going to put "deepfake" labels on their shit… 🤡

If you had spine, you would make this shit such as deep fake or analysing people with bullshit-generators-with-racist bias "intelligence", illegal, not require "to inform people"…

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One (in)famous use-case of AI is with call-centers and chat bots of various service providers. Do these bots qualify as providing effective and efficient reachability/support in case of technical outages? These bots seem trained to seek the causing factor for problems with the consumer and shift the burden of solving problems heavy-sided to the end of the consumer. I guess we all know the "stuck with tech support and frustrated, so I just accept the problem" feeling.
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Yesterday, I finally saw the first TV ads labeled as AI. The label was a few pixels tall and appeared only after the fake video ended. Several AI ads, that have been running for months, are still unlabeled. The label should not only be mandatory, but also well visible, and should appear while the AI video is playing, so everyone can be aware of which companies don't bother employing real people
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eupol, ai

and what about that 30 billion AI giga factory EU tender you just announced 1 week ago? you only address the symptom, not the root cause.

"we welcome and finance this very destructive technology but don't worry we'll legally require corporations to put little labels on things that use it ☺️"

that's a good step forward but ngl I feel like EU views its citizens as complete imbeciles regarding AI policies.
#eupol #aiPolicy #aiPol

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politics, slopworld

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These measures are clearly constructive, aiming to curb manipulation (omitted) and support people in making informed choices. The issue arises when only certain players carry this burden, placing them at a distinct disadvantage against the rest of the world. unfortunately, Europe might find itself dealing with the backlash.

To be truly fair, rules must apply to everyone or no one at all. Giving your opponent an unfair advantage means accepting a rigged game from the start.