[octacat]

Some of the unacceptable activities include:

    AI used for social scoring (e.g., building risk profiles based on a person’s behavior) - Oh, so insurance, and credit score is banned now? And background checks.

    AI that manipulates a person’s decisions subliminally or deceptively. - Oh, so no more ads?

    AI that exploits vulnerabilities like age, disability, or socioeconomic status. - Oh, are we banning facebook now?

    AI that attempts to predict people committing crimes based on their appearance. - pretty sure that exists somewhere too.

    AI that uses biometrics to infer a person’s characteristics, like their sexual orientation. - oh, my, tiktok does not even needs biometrics, just a couple of swipes. Google actually too, just where you visit.

    AI that collects “real time” biometric data in public places for the purposes of law enforcement. - but cameras everywhere are ok.

    AI that tries to infer people’s emotions at work or school. - like every social network, right? or a company with toxic marketing, but without ai (hello, apple with green bubbles)

    AI that creates — or expands — facial recognition databases by scraping images online or from security cameras. - oh, this also probably exists. So companies could track clients.

[fredoliveira]

I fail to see where you stand based on your line by line commentary. Are we not supposed to be against these obvious negatives? Regulation against undesired outcomes needs to start somewhere. Do you believe we should not regulate, simply because we already do some of the things that seem to fall under these individual buckets?

[octacat]

Laws are nice, when they work, clear and applicable.

It is probably would be as useful, as GDPR. Like of course, it sounds nice on the paper, but in reality it will get drown in a lot of legalize. Like with tracking consent in forms nowadays. Do you know which companies you gave consent and when? - me neither.

The issue with such laws, is that they are extremely wide and hard to regulate/enforce/check. But making regulation would make a few political points. While probably not so useful in real life.

We already do a lot falling under these baskets for years, big tech uses AI for algorithms left and right. "Ooopsie, we removed your youtube channel / application, because our AI system said so. You can talk to another AI system next." - we already have these, but I don't hear any reasonable feedback from EU for this.

Basically, big companies with strong legal departments would find the way around the rules. Small startups would be forced to move.