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AI Act: 38 global creators' organizations condemn 'betrayal' of Europe's stated goals
A bitter taste and deep disappointment are being felt among authors, performers, publishers, producers and other rights holders across Europe and around the world. In a joint statement signed on Thursday, July 31, 38 leading global rights holders' organizations expressed their "dissatisfaction" with the implementation of the European Union's regulation on artificial intelligence (AI).
Their discontent applies to the "Code of Practice, the GPAI Guidelines, and the Template for disclosure of a sufficiently detailed summary of training data under Article 53 of the EU AI Act." This legislation regulating AI within the European Union partially takes effect on Saturday, August 2.
Despite their extensive engagments made "throughout this process, the final outcomes fail to address the core concerns which our sectors [...] have consistently raised," the organizations state. The coalition went further: "The result is not a balanced compromise." They call it "a missed opportunity to provide meaningful protection of intellectual property rights in the context of GenAI [generative AI]." Worse still, the AI Act "does not deliver on the promise of the EU AI Act itself."
