alt Hacker NewsWhy should a user care whether the entity they're interacting with meets some arbitrary political definition of "AI"? Does it matter whether an article that I'm reading was written by AI or by a monkey randomly banging on a keyboard? Regulations seem totally pointless, just another excuse to shovel taxpayer money to a bunch of bureaucrats with fancy degrees who are incapable of finding real jobs.
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This is silly.
Regulation exists to help balance out the power disparity between consumers and corporations that sell AI. The EU wrote a good AI law, it's mainly focused on access to goods and services and the impact that AI can have in those domains. Among other things, it almost entirely bans surveillance pricing. Makes companies liable if an AIs discriminate on their behalf. Also restricts the use of facial recognition.
This is it's role, to equalize the power disparity by prohibiting companies that do business within the EU from engaging in these predatory practices.
> Does it matter whether an article that I'm reading was written by AI
Of course it does. At least to me, an AI disclaimer would make me immediately close the tab.
Given that companies are pushing entire product lines[1] to combat this problem, I'd say I'm not alone :)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919067