Just got a name out of it and some text about that person that was incorrect. There is no means of correction so this fails the "right to rectification". Reported to GPDP.
Large language models are fundamentally incompatible with EU bureaucracy. This has two possible endings: the EU adjusts its regulations, or companies operate outside of the EU and they are left behind.
(Yes, the EU can, in theory, fine a foreign company, but they probably won't ever see that money.)
He didn't say anything about good, he said the EU would be left behind. LLMs will absolutely increase the capabilities and powers of organizations that use them. I don't think that's debatable. Whether it's for good is a separate question.
It could be like getting another country to manufature all of your goods. It works at the beginning, you get everything you want, and then lose the capacity to make things yourself.
Can you blindly trust it to do anything without you being there to correct it? Even when it's not giving you bullshit, it gives the most uncreative, boilerplate output that any human will quickly learn to instantly dismiss. Like the myriad of HN accounts that tried to use it to post comments and that the rest of us instantly recognised as bots.
I'm not saying it's useless, it certainly has its use cases, but the best it can do is supplement humans (give ideas for a blog post, find an answer to an unconventionally asked question by sifting through docs), I'm not buying that it's ever gonna replace millions of us or that it brings significant advantage over a worker using a traditional search engine and good judgement.
I know it's too soon to make a definitive statement like this, but I'm not impressed at all. I'd compare it more to tech whose point of usefulness is always X years away (blockchain, self-driving cars) than to tech that truly revolutionised the world (Google, Wikipedia, smartphones). But again, time will tell.
With the exception of some unicorns like Spotify, the EU failed a long time ago. To this day 90% of tech innovation is still coming out of California, OpenAI is just one example out of thousands.
The law theyre referencing has nothing to do with omniscience, just the ability to report and have mistakes corrected... the opposite of omniscience really
And the irony is that most people in the country complain about other people breaking the law. When they themselves do it, it's because the government is s** or "it's just the system...".
(Yes, the EU can, in theory, fine a foreign company, but they probably won't ever see that money.)