The applications of some of the most popular chats launched, installed on a smart phone, photo: Robert W / Alamy / Profimedia Images
On Saturday, August 2, the regulations of the European Union for Artificial Intelligence (AI) come into force, reminds the ANSA agency on Friday, quoted by Agerpres.
The first worldwide legislation for the development, marketing and use of AI refers to the general purpose artificial intelligence models (GPAI), such as GPT-4 from Openai, Gemini from Google or Grok from Xai.
The set of rules, which the European Commission had not considered in the initial proposal, was introduced at the examination of the legislative package, as a reaction to the explosive increase of the Chatgpt popularity.
According to the European law, GPA suppliers, including open-source (with a public source code) must ensure the transparency and compliance with the copyright before removing the models on the EU market.
For those who develop the most powerful GPA, additional obligations are provided, if the respective artificial intelligences can threaten fundamental rights or security, or can get out of control. Suppliers must immediately notify the European Office for Artificial Intelligence about GPAI models with such systemic risks that they intend to circulate in the EU.
EU has already forbade systems to use practices such as facial recognition
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024, entered into force last year, provides for the implementation in stages. The first of these, applied since February 2, refers to forbidden practices, including facial recognition, manipulation techniques and social evaluation (social score).
The rules for GPAI are presented in the code of good practices, a voluntary tool whose signatories were to be announced on Friday.
If the suppliers joining this code do not immediately implement all the commitments, the Office for AI does not consider that they do not respect them, but will appreciate that they have acted in good faith and will be willing to cooperate for complete compliance.
From August 2, 2026, the European Commission will ask all GPAI providers to comply with the obligations, otherwise being liable to financial penalties. The suppliers of the existing GPA models, launched on the market before August 2, must comply with Regulation 2024/1689 within two years, that is until August 2, 2027.
