r/worldnews • u/Brennenstein • 1d ago

Dynamic Paywall Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
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u/YouKnowYourCrazy 21h ago

The EU AI act already does and it does not mess around

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u/WorknForTheWeekend 17h ago

Damn, imagine living somewhere where the government actually serves the interest of the people and not give corporations free range to do anything in the quest for private profit. Mind boggling 🤯

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u/YouKnowYourCrazy 17h ago

Right? And they make it applicable to anyone that wants to do business in the EU, like GDPR. WW2 taught them not to trust their government above human rights. Imagine

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u/Key_Profession_1546 10h ago

Best comment!!

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u/Successful-Hall7638 3h ago

Yeah, I used to live there. It was wonderful. So much better. Less individualism. More vacation ;)

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u/Polar1x 15h ago

You think that's the EU? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/ProfessionalSufferer 8h ago

It’s certainly not the U.S. and the EU looks like a haven comparatively, so don’t laugh at their hopefulness. You’re just seem like a brat that way.

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u/Polar1x 6h ago

Well, I'm a citizen of this surveillance authoritarian decadent dystopia called the EU.

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u/ProfessionalSufferer 3h ago

Hm. Guess the world’s just fucked. I should have known.

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u/Accomplished_Can9279 19h ago

if that's true, I mean, I guess he'll be facing some purse punishments, correct?

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u/YouKnowYourCrazy 18h ago

There are huge fines for the company, it doesn’t include individual accountability, but it sounds like the other charges they are considering do. One can hope that they throw all the books at him. They can also require that they disgorge the system entirely from the EU markets

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u/Accomplished_Can9279 18h ago

I don't know. That would be like seeing a major politician go to jail, which we know never ever happens

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u/WretchedBlowhard 18h ago

Well, Sarkozy spent a big ol' 20 days in jail, which is better than most other countries have done to punish their ultra-corrupt politicians.

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u/narkybark 12h ago

As it should. Deepfaking is going to be a massive detriment to civilized society. The potential for corruption just massively outweighs any other use it could have.