[javajosh]

In addition to this general malaise, the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is going to have a big, negative impact on all of the EU, especially Germany, and especially the software industry. The CRA itself is insane, requiring, for example, that conforming software phone-home. Which is, of course, the opposite of what we should be pushing for. Note that something similar is probably coming to the US in the next few years.

I learned about this today from Eclipse Foundation executive director Mike Milinkovich's excellent video/tutorial/warning on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmsM5_5QO5A

[Vuizur]

When you look at open source AI, for example, EU laws are a huge problem: Not only the act you mentioned, but also GDPR, where it is not clear so far how the "right to be informed" or the "right to deletion" can/must conceivably be implemented. (From my interpretation I also don't see how OpenAI can conform to the "right to be informed" without publishing its training data).

And of course the AI act, which might make it possible for the publishers of open models to be sued if a third party misuses it: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/06/the-eus-ai-act-could-have-...