Meta has announced that it will not sign the code of good EU practices for artificial intelligence models for general purposes (GPAI) presented in Brussels last week. Joel Kaplan, Chief Global Affairs Officer of Meta, made it known. “This code introduces a series of legal uncertainties for models developers, as well as measures that go far beyond the scope of the AI Law”, explained Kaplan, claiming that in the field of IA “Europe is taking the wrong road”
“Companies and politicians from all over Europe have expressed themselves against this regulation”, explained Kaplan, recalling the letter sent in recent weeks by 44 among the major European companies, including Bosch, Siemens, Sap, Airbus and Bnp, in which the commission was asked to pause the implementation of the ACT, the so -called ‘stop The Clock’. “We share the concerns expressed by these companies, according to which this excessive extension will brake the development and dissemination of the frontier IA models in Europe and hinder European companies that intend to build companies on the basis of these models,” he added.
The code of good practices, which can be used voluntaryly, provides clarifications on a series of rules envisaged in the ACT ACT which will apply, starting from August 2, to suppliers of GPAI models, in particular those with systemic risks such as GPT-4 of Openai, Gemini di Google and Grok of XAI.
Provided by 13 independent experts, with the contribution of over a thousand parties concerned, the code will have to collect the green light of the commission and the twenty -seven. The circulated drafts of the code, whose final drafting is slipped from May to July, had aroused the protests of the experts who had reported pressure from the big tech to waten the text