I don't mean disrespect to EU but the fact that the amount of fines in percentages is same when Italy decided to fine worldwide income of Cloudflare 6% for not effectively giving into banning any website Italy says in very short period of time effectively asking Cf to do something very bad for internet for the lobbying in football at italy
And you get the same fine as that when your platform is LITERALLY creating AI generated nsfw deepfakes of LITERAL CHILDREN.
Um.. People might think 6% is enough but is it? To all the woman who felt unsafe on X or were created deepfakes of, would that 6% compensation be enough where they felt publicly humiliated.
One can't put a number on this thing imo. At this point, Pedophilia's a serious crime, EU should try to charge criminally X.AI for all woman (European or not) who got mentally harassed by the bot.
What's on the internet stays on the internet (archive/wayback machine or not/other), can you imagine how much impact could be mentally on a child whose such photos were generated?
I mean something's better than nothing but also X.ai or grok deserves much much more severe punishment than a 6% fine imo.
But also B) if both companies get fined almost same for i) doing something so obscene that I don't want to describe it and ii) thinking that banning any website or every in a short notice of 30 minutes worldwide by the mafia is undemocratic
This just doesn't send a strong signal if this is the only thing which happens to X, It would be a slap on the wrist for almost war crimes that it committed.
Charge them criminally for the first time. I read it when anthropic got fined I think ~6% or some Billions when they literally scraped all books without any consent and teh consensus on HN was to charge them criminally.
If the only result out of doing crime is fine, then crime's legal.
On almost every scene generated I was met with a huge number of "Content Moderated" outputs (sufficed to say, not in generating pornography or lewds) and it frustrated me enough that I even emailed in saying that "You need to sort out the amount of moderation, no way I'll subscribe if 40% of my tokens are going into the bin).
Now, I feel some level of guilt, because I guess they listened, but it opened the door to a lot of bad actors.
Schmerika•1w ago
Why though? The BBC can't say this, but I can: Anyone with the slightest idea of what's been leaking from the Epstein files shouldn't be surprised to see the people in power trying to normalize creepy shit (yet again).
Don't expect much from EU regulators. The fear of pushing back against the US runs extremely deep; the only limit so far is when an EU country is directly threatened with annexation.
Edit: Aaaaand it's gone. Like 90+% of valid, important stories involving anything Musk on this platform for the last year. FFS. Here's the link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clye99wg0y8o
Edit 2: Is there some new kind of removal where people can't even post comments on flagged stories? Tf is going on here.
Imustaskforhelp•1w ago
The Greenland Crisis Response from EU was surprisingly muscular tho. I hope that they can keep on moving in that trajectory and fix apart from the stockholm syndrome.
It's kind of understandable why EU might have such syndrome but America's the toxic drunk partner in the relationship abusing EU and EU kind of needs to step out or be more masculine and not be abused basically (in my opinion).
joe_mamba•1w ago
Wait, what was the muscular response?
AFAIK some countries sent a handful of soldiers to Greenland for a few days, then called them back, and a couple of pension funds from Sweden and Denmark threaten to sell the US bonds they hold, plus the threat of some extra tariffs from the EU which already has the short end of the stick from Ursula's last trade deal with Trump where she folded like a deck chair to his demands. Our current trade relationship with the US leaves us worse off than during the pre-Trump era, so I don't really see how we're on top here.
Did I miss anything that shifted power balance back to us in EU and I didn't hear about?