00:00To sign or not to sign the EU Code of Practice on Artificial Intelligence?
00:07This is the question that the web giants are asking themselves.
00:11OpenAI and Microsoft have already announced their intention to sign it.
00:15On the other hand, Meta is the only one to have announced it would not do so.
00:20One of its leaders said on social media that Europe is heading down the wrong path with regards to AI
00:25and pointed out legal uncertainties for model developers.
00:29Experts are not surprised.
00:31There is no doubt that the success of the Code of Practice will be counted
00:38on how much participation and goodwill from the industry there is.
00:47So there is no doubt about that.
00:50And Meta as a large player and very ambitious player, as we discussed,
00:57trying to really compete in the US and globally with other AI hyperscalers.
01:03It definitely is a blow, considering how fast they were in making that decision and making it public.
01:12This kind of compass aims to help AI model providers comply with the new European laws on artificial intelligence that will enter into force in August.
01:21The rules concern transparency, copyright and security.
01:25For example, companies committing to not develop AI models with stolen data.
01:30The European Commission has ensured that Meta will still have to comply with EU law on AI.
01:37Signing the Code of Practice is voluntary.
01:39What will, however, not be voluntary for Meta is to be compliant with the AI Act by the 2nd of August.
01:45This will be an obligation.
01:47Other companies like Google and Amazon have not yet declared if they would sign the code or not.
01:53Yeah, this will certainly be an obligation, but they will allow us to make other possibilities Dr scan for the future.
01:56And more importantly, this can take as an opportunity
02:00therated model for the future will occur.
02:01Whenever they engage in the Level 2 of the Machine, the less important.
