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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 20:11:07 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Can anyone tell me why Americans care so much about the EU regulating AI companies and why Meta, Apple, and others cannot offer their AI services in the EU zone? I am talking about the average tech bro from the bird site. I just don’t understand. Don’t you have your own problem to fix instead of worrying about the EU?

   • jglypt (jglypt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 20:12:12 JST jglypt

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     @nixCraft Yeah I think that too sometimes, it's weird lmao

   • Plakat (plakat@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 20:17:15 JST Plakat

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     @nixCraft California already takes inspiration from #gdpr… I think that frightens them. Good :-)

   • schrotthaufen (schrotthaufen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 20:45:34 JST schrotthaufen

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     @nixCraft It’s a cult. Their VC idols despise regulations, so they too hate anything that threatens unimpeded capitalism, and technological “progress” at any price. (And maybe fear that China will out-AI the west)

   • Nick (nickanengineer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jul-2024 21:12:09 JST Nick

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     @nixCraft They can't ignore the EU as a market, it's too big and it'll be too much work to make 2 products. 1 for EU that satisfies their laws and 1 for the rest of the world that doesn't. The one for the rest of the world is ultimately what they want to make but its also probably doing all kinds of dodgy stuff with people's data.

   • IO (mr_io@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 02:56:50 JST IO

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     @nixCraft I always interpret it as "hoping EU does what XYZ place won't, then hoping it ends up extending to XYZ somehow". For example, iPhones with USB-C being selled worldwide for manufacturing reasons, or lawmakers in different places taking GDPR as an example