Is your AI system illegal in the EU?

https://medium.com/@lea.leumassart/is-your-ai-system-illegal-in-the-eu-heres-how-to-check-b92e2a5fb739

by pbacdf • 8 months ago

25 43 8 months ago

tuhgdetzhh• 8 months ago

The answers is: likely yes, but the solution is to become the market leader now and pay the fines later. This buisness strategy has worked out very well for the magnificent 7.

pr337h4m• 8 months ago

You shouldn't care - especially if you're not located in the EU.

rspoerri• 8 months ago

The AI Act applies to you if:

- You provide AI systems used in the EU (regardless of where you’re based)

- You import or distribute AI systems in the EU

- You use AI systems in your business operations in the EU

In other words: if your AI touches the EU market in any way, you’re covered. Anytime an EU user consumes your product, you’re accountable.

ronsor• 8 months ago

Not once the GRANITE Act arrives.

int32_64• 8 months ago

regardless of where you’re based

This isn't true.

CamperBob2• 8 months ago

Sounds like an EU problem to me.

greyface-• 8 months ago

The AI Act applies to you [...] regardless of where you’re based

By what mechanism? Extradition?

hackingonempty• 8 months ago

Same with Thailand's lese majeste laws. Better hope nobody on your site writes "Vajiralongkorn the King of Thailand is an impotent jerkface."

cr125rider• 8 months ago

If the EU tried to innovate as hard on technology as they did regulations, imagine how far they’d be…

saubeidl8• 8 months ago

This trope is tiring.

* We're leading the world in fusion research. https://www.pppl.gov/news/2025/wendelstein-7-x-sets-new-perf...

* Our satellites are giving us by far the best understanding of our universe, capturing one third of the visible sky in incredible detail - just check out this mission update video if you want your mind blown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCBFlIpvfQ

* Not only that, the Copernicus mission is the world's leading source for open data geoobservation: https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/

* We've given the world mRNA vaccines to solve the Covid crisis and GLP-1 antagonists to solve the obesity crisis.

* CERN and is figuring out questions about the fundamental nature of the universe, with the LHC being by far the largest particle accelerator in the world, an engineering precision feat that couldn't have been accomplished anywhere else.

Innovation isn't just about the latest tech fad. It's about fundamental research on how our universe works. Everyone else is downstream of us.

troyvit• 8 months ago

Along the same lines, if the US tried to innovate as hard on regulations as they do on technology maybe we wouldn't be destroying the world.

politelemon• 8 months ago

Comparing the two, Europe is in a pretty good place right now thanks to its regulations. I'm glad it isn't as "far" and there are still some vestiges of treating people as humans.

lm284694• 8 months ago

Meanwhile thousands of Americans don't have access to lead free running water, your public transportation system is about as good as ours from 150 years ago, parents have to be back in the office instantly after having a baby, if you don't have insurance a cancer will bankrupt you, your average lifespan is going down, &c.

Keep your llms and iphones, we're more than fine on our side lmao

erispoe2• 8 months ago

Virtually everyone complies with GDPR.

saubeidl8• 8 months ago

Unless you want to be able to sell to a market twice as big as the US, of course.

unmole4• 8 months ago

This is innumerate bordering on the delusional.

josefritzishere• 8 months ago

This is not sound legal advice. Even Elon learned a lesson about that recently.

mvanbaak• 8 months ago

The article doesnt link to a single source. Missed chance

Manfred• 8 months ago

It links to annex 3, and you can find everything at https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/

unstatusthequo• 8 months ago

What about all the AI meeting recording bots that are constantly joining meetings (sometimes even privileged communications in legal matters) or those where two party consent isn’t given? It seems like just nobody cares that this is an issue and it’s becoming acceptable to just violate confidentiality, privilege, and recording laws because “convenience.”

bdangubic3• 8 months ago

I don't live in EU - boom - problem solved

saubeidl8• 8 months ago

But the world's largest market of wealthy customers does.

Might still be a problem.

awei• 8 months ago

The EU represents about 24% of the global Saas market for example. (95 billion in 2024 / global SaaS market in 2025 is ~ $408 billion). For comparison, North America leads globally at around 43-50% market share)

KoolKat23• 8 months ago

The post makes quite the leap imo. That list is nuanced and basically it should not make a judgment, not what they say.

graemep• 8 months ago

The definition of AI is a lot broader than LLMs, and probably a lot broader than machine learning. From Recital 12

The techniques that enable inference while building an AI system include machine learning approaches that learn from data how to achieve certain objectives, and logic- and knowledge-based approaches that infer from encoded knowledge or symbolic representation of the task to be solved.

That is just a snippe t and I do not know how to interpret it as a whole but it sound as though it atleast extends to expert systems and genetic algorithms? Prolog maybe?

Is your AI system illegal in the EU?

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