Top 5 Things You Need to Know About the New AI "Law" That Just Passed in the EU
- Protects Your Rights on Social Media: This new law forces tech companies to label any content created by artificial intelligence, from deepfake videos to fake news, so you know exactly what is real and what is not.
- Bans the Creepiest Surveillance Tech: The law officially bans predictive policing and real-time facial recognition in public spaces for nearly everyone, ending the fear of being tracked by AI without your consent.
- Creators Get Paid for Their Work: Under this law, companies like OpenAI and Google must now pay artists, writers, and photographers if their copyrighted work was used to train AI models without permission.
- Huge Fines If Companies Break the Rules: If a company ignores these rules, they face a penalty of up to 7% of their global annual revenue—billions of dollars in the case of major tech firms.
- Gives You a Right to Human Feedback: For the first time, if an AI system flags you for something (like a loan denial or a job screening), you have a legal right to have a human review the decision and explain it to you.