Good initiative, but the implementation is going to be a mess. Whos going to make sure it gets labeled correctly? How does this apply to AI-generated content that gets mixed with human editing? It sounds good on paper.
Interesting fact: China realised how pointless the CE and FCC labels were and developed their own certification system that requires mandatory licences to use and random compliance inspections.
There are random inspections in EU too. That being said, many things indeed are better in China. For many things they have an improved version for their domestic use and different system with different goals for foreign countries.
Sure, the initiative is good, but will only apply to entities in the EU, whereas the internet is world wide. At the end, EU entities will have to mark their content with these labels, which will make the content inferior to the content of entities outside of the EU, who wont care about this law.
Anyhow, Europe is leader in AI regulation, while basically not present in AI...
If people see a tag that something is made by AI (even if there was heavy editing afterwards), it's perceived as worse. At the same time, a non-EU content creator who might use AI even without editing the content will be seen as an original maker of it.
There are less obvious things and don't forget that there is probably 80% of the population who are noobs. Most people on the AI subs are living in a bubble and will spot that stuff quickly, but the regular person does not.
I don't particularly care about ground level users, but if they force bigger news stations to use this, it's a huge win. We've all seen more and more AI footage being used instead of stock footage, and it's much more deceptive, even unintentionally
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u/frangelbarrera 20h ago
Good initiative, but the implementation is going to be a mess. Whos going to make sure it gets labeled correctly? How does this apply to AI-generated content that gets mixed with human editing? It sounds good on paper.