[pr337h4m]

You shouldn't care - especially if you're not located in the EU.

[rspoerri]

The AI Act applies to you if:

- You provide AI systems used in the EU (regardless of where you’re based)

- You import or distribute AI systems in the EU

- You use AI systems in your business operations in the EU

In other words: if your AI touches the EU market in any way, you’re covered. Anytime an EU user consumes your product, you’re accountable.

[hackingonempty]

Same with Thailand's lese majeste laws. Better hope nobody on your site writes "Vajiralongkorn the King of Thailand is an impotent jerkface."

[greyface-]

> The AI Act applies to you [...] regardless of where you’re based

By what mechanism? Extradition?

[int32_64]

>regardless of where you’re based

This isn't true.

[ronsor]

Not once the GRANITE Act arrives.

[CamperBob2]

Sounds like an EU problem to me.

[cr125rider]

If the EU tried to innovate as hard on technology as they did regulations, imagine how far they’d be…

[troyvit]

Along the same lines, if the US tried to innovate as hard on regulations as they do on technology maybe we wouldn't be destroying the world.

[politelemon]

Comparing the two, Europe is in a pretty good place right now thanks to its regulations. I'm glad it isn't as "far" and there are still some vestiges of treating people as humans.

[lm28469]

Meanwhile thousands of Americans don't have access to lead free running water, your public transportation system is about as good as ours from 150 years ago, parents have to be back in the office instantly after having a baby, if you don't have insurance a cancer will bankrupt you, your average lifespan is going down, &c.

Keep your llms and iphones, we're more than fine on our side lmao

[saubeidl]

This trope is tiring.

* We're leading the world in fusion research. https://www.pppl.gov/news/2025/wendelstein-7-x-sets-new-perf...

* Our satellites are giving us by far the best understanding of our universe, capturing one third of the visible sky in incredible detail - just check out this mission update video if you want your mind blown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXCBFlIpvfQ

* Not only that, the Copernicus mission is the world's leading source for open data geoobservation: https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/

* We've given the world mRNA vaccines to solve the Covid crisis and GLP-1 antagonists to solve the obesity crisis.

* CERN and is figuring out questions about the fundamental nature of the universe, with the LHC being by far the largest particle accelerator in the world, an engineering precision feat that couldn't have been accomplished anywhere else.

Innovation isn't just about the latest tech fad. It's about fundamental research on how our universe works. Everyone else is downstream of us.

[josefritzishere]

This is not sound legal advice. Even Elon learned a lesson about that recently.

[saubeidl]

Unless you want to be able to sell to a market twice as big as the US, of course.

[unmole]

This is innumerate bordering on the delusional.

[erispoe]

Virtually everyone complies with GDPR.