Meta and Spotify warn of EU’s ‘complex’ AI legislation
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek issued a joint statement characterising European rules on open source AI models as “prohibitive”.
Artificial intelligence (AI), according to both, has the potential to transform the world, accelerate scientific progress and add “trillions of dollars” to the global economy.
“We believe the next generation of ideas and startups will be built using open-source AI because it allows developers to incorporate the latest innovations at low cost and gives institutions more control over their data.”
“Due to fragmented regulations and inconsistent implementation, innovation is hindered and developers are stymied,” Zuckerberg and Ek said in their statement.
The top executives want Europe to streamline regulations to make it clearer what is and is not allowed. Meta is not releasing its multimodal open source Llama models in the EU to be on the safe side because it is unclear whether they comply with regulations.
The two men point in particular to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This directive was meant to harmonise the use and flow of data, but instead EU privacy regulators are causing delays and uncertainty and cannot agree among themselves on how to apply the law. Meta, for example, has been told to delay training its models on content publicly shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram – not because a law has been broken, but because regulators have not agreed on how to proceed.
Europe, according to both top executives, needs a new approach with clearer policies and more consistent enforcement. With the right regulatory environment, combined with the right ambition and some of the world’s best AI talent, the EU would have a real chance to lead the next generation of tech innovation.
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