That it is very likely not going to work as advertised, and might even backfire.

The EU AI regulation establishes complex rules and requirements for models trained above 10^25 FLOPS. Mistral is currently the only European company operating at that scale, and they are also asking for a pause before these rules go into effect.

This is the same entity that has literally ruled that you can be charged with blasphemy for insulting religious figures, so intent to protect citizens is not a motive I ascribe to them.

The EU is pushing for a backdoor in all major messaging/email providers to "protect the children". But it's for our own good you see? The EU knows best and it wants your data without limits and without probable cause. Everyone is a suspect.

1984 wasn't supposed to be a blueprint.

Will they resort to turning off the Internet to protect citizens?

He also said “ill conceived”

what's bad about it is when people say "it's to protect citizens" when it's really a political move to control american companies

it does not protect citizens? the EU shoves down a lot of the member state's throats.

You end up with anemic industry and heavy dependability on foreign players.

Because it doesn't protect us.

It just creates barriers for internal players, while giving a massive head start for evil outside players.

A good example of how this can end up with negative outcomes is the cookie directive, which is how we ended up with cookie consent popovers on every website that does absolutely nothing to prevent tracking and has only amounted to making lives more frustrating in the EU and abroad.

It was a decade too late and written by people who were incredibly out of touch with the actual problem. The GDPR is a bit better, but it's still a far bigger nuisance for regular European citizens than the companies that still largely unhindered track and profile the same.

"Even the very wise cannot see all ends." And these people aren't what I'd call "very wise."

Meanwhile, nobody in China gives a flying fuck about regulators in the EU. You probably don't care about what the Chinese are doing now, but believe me, you will if the EU hands the next trillion-Euro market over to them without a fight.