Monday, February 03

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Daily News Stuff 3 February 2025

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  • AI systems with unacceptable risk are now banned in the EU.  (Tech Crunch)

    What risk, we ask.

    The EU actually answers that, sort of.

    "Unacceptable risk" AI is Class 4, and Class 3, which is not banned but regulated, includes AI systems for recommending medical treatment.  Fair enough; medical anything tends to be regulated, and there's no reason not to subject medical AI to standards and tests.

    Under Class 4, banned outright, we see:

    * AI used for social scoring, where the social scores are applied outside the context in which they are calculated - e.g. firing someone because of their Reddit posts
    * Inferring a person's likelihood to commit a crime unless you are the police and already have the criminal banged up because you think they done it
    * Subliminal advertising, which doesn't work anyway
    * Something so broad that it encompasses all advertising, which will be interesting
    * Anything that can infer someone's emotional state
    * Biometric analysis except when the government really wants to

    So yes, commies gonna commie, and the legislation has enough holes to drive the Bagger-288 through.

    Companies - anyone operating however tangentially in Europe - are expected to be in full compliance by, uh, yesterday.


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1 $1.6 billion does sound a tad more corerect than $6 million, always keeping in mind that the truth and the Chinese Communist Party do not exist in the same space/time continuum.

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