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lawmakers agreed to a set of draft rules this month where
systems like ChatGPT would have to disclose AI-generated
content, help distinguish so-called deep-fake images from real
ones and ensure safeguards against illegal content.
Since ChatGPT became popular, several open letters have been
issued calling for regulation of AI and raising the "risk of
extinction from AI".
Signatories of previous letters included Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO
Sam Altman, and Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio - two of the
three so-called "godfathers of AI".
The third, Yann LeCun, who works at Meta, signed Friday's letter
challenging the EU regulations. Other signatories included
executives from a diverse set of companies such as Spanish
telecom company Cellnex, French software company Mirakl and
German investment bank Berenberg.
Those companies, along with Renault and Meta, did not respond
immediately to requests for comment.
We are principally aiming at the European Parliament version
because they decided to move from a risk-based approach to a
technology-based approach, which was not in the initial text,
Cedric O, former digital minister of France and one of the three
organizers of the letter, told Reuters.
He, along with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, founding partner of La
Famiglia VC, and René Obermann, Airbus chairman, organised the
open letter.
The letter warned that under the proposed EU rules technologies
like generative AI would become heavily regulated and companies
developing such systems would face high compliance costs and
disproportionate liability risks.
Such regulation could lead to highly innovative companies moving
their activities abroad and investors withdrawing their capital
from the development of European AI in general, it said.
OpenAI's Altman, who had in May threatened to pull ChatGPT from
Europe if it becomes too hard to comply with upcoming AI laws,
later reversed his position and said the company has no plans to
exit.
"I am convinced they have not carefully read the text but have
rather reacted on the stimulus of a few who have a vested
interest in this topic," Dragos Tudorache, who co-led the
drafting of EU proposals, told Reuters.
The suggestions made in the letter are already in the draft
legislation, he said.
(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm; Editing by Jamie
Freed and David Evans)
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