All about the EU AI Act. Your guide to building and selling AI in Europe.
The EU’s AI Act is here. Find out what it means for your AI startup and how to stay compliant without the hassle.
The new AI Act is setting strict rules based on how risky your AI project is — from minimal (like spam filters) to unacceptable (like social scoring).
It’s all about building ethical AI and having consistent standards. Expect more paperwork and costs.
You’ve gotta comply by 2026 or risk hefty fines, up to €35,000,000 or 7% of your global revenue.
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Europe bureaucracy strikes again.
Setting up the EU for failure... For regulation to work everyone needs ro acknowledge it, not just the EU which sounds like one body but actually fractures to many languages and cultures so it is not really a market. The US just advertised they are investing 500 billion dollars in AI, china is already deep into AI and the EU will be left in the stone age if they continue...
Haha, that's a long way of saying the EU is the only jurisdiction that respects its consumers.
BS. Innovation is blocked but we get 50 calls a day by some telecom shit or some filtered water seller. And AI or not, all our phones are already voluntarily filled with data, listening , mics and unasked ads. The worst is that people are so dumb they are too occupied to watch Temptation Island and all these shitshows to know this. I’ll just base my company in the US and EU can GTFO
The idea is good but enforcement will be very difficult. The AI will just move to places like the United States where Trump is going in the compete opposite direction. I think that is hard to regulate and enforce something that can exist in the ether. It is not a physical thing. Someone can just download and run code and AI can run outside off the EU and people in the EU can still interact with it.
The idea is def not good. Was GDPR good?
I dont think having a system that regulates what you can and cannot do is good, e.g working with US SP that does not have DPA or SCC.
I would understand that companies must say what they do with data but that is as far as it goes(even that is too much in most cases)
The EU AI Act is a landmark regulation shaping the of AI in Europe. If you're building or selling AI in the EU, compliance is key—especially with its risk-based approach, transparency requirements, and strict rules for high-risk applications. A must-follow for businesses looking to innovate responsibly! firikirinusxyz
Guys, just base your startup in the US or Singapore. Europe is a walking dead since the 90s. Do biz in the US and get some EU lifestyle working remotely. Just set up the right structure to do this in compliance.
In 2 years we will be a third~world country for the genius work by these 70-something protestant Teutonic idiots driving EU. The only sane Mario Draghi has been totally ignored.
Agreed.
EU is really a shithole, hate that I am born here
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