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by impossiblefork 222 days ago
It's really stupid that people imagine that the GDPR would hold back European AI.

Seeing as the Americans firms have in fact rolled out their systems, it's unlikely to be a legal problem withe GDPR. Maybe copyright is a problem.That would have been a solved problem if that regulation requiring people to list their training data had been applied fully.

This won't make any difference for AI and will reduce EU cohesion, as a belief in privacy is a shared European value.

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Shared European value is a ridiculous concept

go outside and you will see people share almost nothing in common. It's ridiculous to pretend all people in europe agree on this matter, but nobody outside europe doing it.

But we do in fact have this as a shared value. I'm sure there are people outside it whole like it too, sort of like how there are people outside Sweden who like freedom-to-roam, but when you actually have something it becomes part of your expectations and your culture; and I think this belief in limits on internet surveillance, tracking, etc. has in fact become such a thing.

When you don't have something most people accept not having it and it becomes normal not to have it, and I think that's the case with privacy in the US and outside the EU in general.