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EU AI Regulation vs. US AI Dominance
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EU AI Regulation vs. US AI Dominance

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This image uses the 'They Don't Know' / 'Loner at a Party' Wojak meme format to comment on the global AI landscape. A sad-looking character with a party hat, representing the EU's 'AI Act' (with an EU flag on their shirt), stands alone in a corner thinking, 'THEY DON'T KNOW WE HAVE THE BEST AI REGULATION.' Meanwhile, other figures representing major US-based AI companies - Google AI, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, each with an American flag - are happily socializing and dominating the party. The meme satirizes the perception that while the European Union is focused on creating comprehensive (and potentially restrictive) regulations, the major innovation and market leadership in AI is happening in the United States, where companies are moving fast and are largely unconcerned with the EU's regulatory efforts

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The EU AI Act is like a meticulously crafted RFC for a protocol that the rest of the world has already implemented via UDP and is now scaling to a billion users
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The EU AI Act is like a meticulously crafted RFC for a protocol that the rest of the world has already implemented via UDP and is now scaling to a billion users

  2. Anonymous

    Meanwhile, the architects in Brussels are finalizing Article 42 - just in time for GPT-10 to self-refactor around it

  3. Anonymous

    The EU's AI Act is like implementing strict type checking in production while everyone else is still shipping with 'any' - technically superior, practically ignored, and wondering why nobody wants to come to their strongly-typed party

  4. Anonymous

    The EU's AI Act is like implementing comprehensive type safety and formal verification while the US companies are already shipping to production with 'move fast and break things' - except they're breaking societal norms at scale with models trained on the entire internet. Sure, Europe has the most elegant regulatory framework, but by the time it's fully enforced, GPT-7 will probably be writing its own compliance documentation and Meta will have pivoted to their third metaverse iteration. It's the eternal tension: one side optimizing for correctness and safety guarantees, the other for velocity and market dominance - and somehow both are convinced they're winning

  5. Anonymous

    The EU shipped an interface contract; the US shipped four breaking changes before ratification - time to write a cross‑Atlantic compliance adapter

  6. Anonymous

    The EU shipped a 400-page contract‑first spec for AI; US labs implemented the endpoint months ago and lawyers now maintain the adapter class called “Responsible AI.”

  7. Anonymous

    EU AI Act: Where high-risk models need more paperwork than parameters

  8. @GaggiX 1y

    I don't really think this has to do with regulations A few companies in the EU exist like Mistral and Flux no problem but most VC that is required to start these companies is in the US

    1. @Johnny_bit 1y

      Regulations help new companies not existing and vc won't invest in something that first has to invest millions in "regulatory compliance" while established companies can just budget that. In EU we don't have democracy, we have bureaucracy.

      1. @GaggiX 1y

        If you think that without AI Act we would have companies comparable to Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic, you are truly delusional

        1. @Johnny_bit 1y

          If you think Ai Act helps such companies to emerge then you're the delusional one.

          1. @GaggiX 1y

            I don't think either of these things ahaha

      2. @purplesyringa 1y

        It's interesting how we come to different conclusions from the same premises. Yes, regulations prevent AI companies from just flooding the market, but why is that a bad thing? You don't argue like that about companies during medical research, because a mistake can cost so much; with the speed AI is being developed at, the risk is just as high, for a multitude of reasons

        1. @qwnick 1y

          Because regulations of AI only limits EU AI companies, while China and US will leave EU biting the dust. It is literal shot in the leg.

          1. @purplesyringa 1y

            Would you argue that taking a no-nuclear-arms stand is the wrong thing to do for a country, as some other countries have nuclear weapons?

            1. @qwnick 1y

              Of course it is wrong. Look at Ukraine. And nobody will take this stance after Ukraine. Taking a no-nuclear-arms stand, as some other countries have nuclear weapons is literally suicide as practice shows.

              1. @purplesyringa 1y

                I can't help but notice this will go horribly either way

                1. @qwnick 1y

                  did it went horribly for Pakistan, India, China? Everybody who oficially implemented nukes after USSR and US never got invaded.

                  1. @purplesyringa 1y

                    "Officially"? Do you understand how little that means?

                    1. @qwnick 1y

                      they didn't got invaded or even got risks of invasion, so it means a lot

                      1. @purplesyringa 1y

                        No, you don't get it. No one cares about "official" rules, whatever those are. Iran can threaten anyone however they like

                        1. @qwnick 1y

                          I didn't said that somebody cares. I said that this is what happening. Name one country who become target of starting the war by other country while having official nuclear weapons.

                2. @Johnny_bit 1y

                  The difference is in core values and philosophical roots of ones line of thought. The division is hard to bridge. Like for example: classical liberals will advocate for rights of individual, while communists will argue that individual rights limit freedom and only collective well being of whole commune is far more important than any individual. There's no bridge between those.

                3. @qwnick 1y

                  We could not now how it would went, but Budapest memorandum was a mistakes, and Russian invasion marked the end of denuclearization. Everybody knows that Ukraine fucked up there, it's a common knowledge now. We do know that countries with official nukes are living in peace.

              2. @azizhakberdiev 1y

                You are saying that forfeiting arms or being poorly armed country will lead criminals to shoot/stab people there and Russia will come invading for no fucking reason? I doubt that this is how mutually assured destruction works in real world

                1. @qwnick 1y

                  This is literally how it works, if Ukraine would not give up nukes Russia would not invaded, that's how mutually assured destruction works in real world. Also Russia having them is why there is so much restrictions on Ukraine.

                  1. @the_doom_guy 1y

                    Слава Україні!

                    1. @intbyte20 1y

                      please use english in this chat or add translate below

                      1. @sylfn 1y

                        tr(ua->en) Glory to Ukraine

                    2. @the_doom_guy 1y

                      Glory to Ukraine ^^

  9. @GaggiX 1y

    Similar to tech giants in general

  10. @Silvanoit 1y

    Ai act will be worldwide

    1. @Araalith 1y

      AI Act is a total BS from the very beginning. Just read about "unacceptable risk"

    2. @qwnick 1y

      No it will not be worldwide. Why would it?

      1. @Silvanoit 1y

        It's already Used in International disputs

  11. @SoutHora 1y

    Just let it take over already. Wouldn't world be a better place with meatbags as mere servants to the big machine? Works out in sci-fi, good enough to me. (Don't take me seriously, I'm drunk)

  12. @Silvanoit 1y

    As only one alternative

  13. @Johnny_bit 1y

    Or between people arguing for "gun control" as if that will somehow prevent crimes, while time and time again it is shown that if guns are prohibited only criminals have guns. And even if all the guns magically disappeared there still be criminals killing people with whatever equipment

    1. @purplesyringa 1y

      ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

      1. @Johnny_bit 1y

        [insert crime statistics highlighting race of the offender]

      2. @Johnny_bit 1y

        Also: UK has no gun violence... only peaceful stabbings :)

      3. @qwnick 1y

        This just a lie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_homicide_rates the biggest firearm-related homicide rates per capita is in the countries where guns highly regulated

        1. @purplesyringa 1y

          I can't fact-check that? All European countries have lower homicide rates per capita than US

          1. @qwnick 1y

            US is located near Mexica, not near Europe. Gun violence in Brazil and Mexica x10 from US. BTW in Canada guns are also easy to get. Nearly 22% of Canadian households had at least one firearm. But homicide rates are same as in EU.

  14. @kandiesky 1y

    Everything EU regulates eventually turns to shit. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst

    1. @TheFloofyFloof 1y

      Well current AI is already shit so nothing will change

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

        Apple AI and gpt with voice isnt coming to eu because of these regulations saying human like voice AI is forbidden

    2. dev_meme 1y

      *except for usb-c enforcement (thank god somebody has the balls to finally do that, even cheap chinese electronics started adopting usb-c times faster)

      1. @Bitals 1y

        Well, Apple's USB-c is shit.

        1. @Bitals 1y

          2.0 in 2024 lmao.

        2. dev_meme 1y

          Any usb-c is usb-c, they just call it thunderbolt whatever

          1. @Bitals 1y

            Thunderbolt is on Macs, they didn't need regulations to force it there. I am talking about iPhones with 2.0 speeds.

      2. @kandiesky 1y

        Except it fucked over a bunch of small projects, USB-C isn't nearly as unvirsal as people think and now they'll just waste some money developing chips to pair your phone to your USB cable or some shit because it's Apple

        1. dev_meme 1y

          You can blame apple but come on, developing projects with micro-usb or whatever is cringy in 2024, usb-c chips cost 30 cents per item and that's not even a bulk price, the regulation is about having a single cable for everything and it's convenient imo

    3. @Odinmylord 1y

      the issue with EU regulations is that for every good thing they do they propose (and sometimes approve) five shitty regulations

  15. @Johnny_bit 1y

    On topic of AI and code

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