On Wednesday, EU Member States approved a change to the GDPR that would put the profit-making interests of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX over European’s fundamental right to data protection. According to the approved text, processing personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be lawful. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens “in the context” of AI. Schrems: “Under the agreed text, the profits of AI companies would typically trump European’s fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans.” All this is happening despite the key figures of AI corporations actively warning about the enormous risks associated with their own products.
Jesus fuck, the corruption levels are off the charts. This is such an obviously bad deal.
On top of the very obvious, there is also the matter of: what foes it mean “in the context of AI”? If I have a little LLM running on my PC, can I steal your data?
no, you need at least Another Indian across the ocean stealing it