Is there any chance that all of these EU regulations will, at some point, cause tech innovators to flee Europe and tech companies to avoid Europe rather than deal with all of the government meddling?
Like, the EU will have generative AI...a little lagged, but regulated for the interest of people. The comparatively lawless US will get the dirty hit, and they'll get the clean version. Maybe not even from US companies. If US companies just flee the regulation, they will probably have domestic companies doing it in compliance with their regulation, and if they lag a bit in innovation, they will see what happened in the US, then implement it in a compliant manner, and that has the advantage of boosting the domestic economy instead of relying on US tech anyway.
However, it doesn't seem quite that simple, because it ignores the economic advantage of more lax regulation, which doesn't run entirely disjoint from human interests, and it might account a little for the large size of the US economy. The calibration seems a bit off in the US. While a much poorer country, I like how Bhutan explicitly has a Gross National Happiness index, not just a GDP. It certainly feels like the GDP gets too much attention and the US treats economics as an end in itself, not in service to human happiness, with predictable results. (Obviously, I'm speaking in generalities. China has the 996, work 6 days a week, 9AM-9PM, which seems like a greater deprioritization of happiness for economics than the US. I mean the US would do better to keep the GDP in perspective as an element of happiness, perhaps an important one, but a subservient* one.)
*corrected thanks to comment below
The happiness of citizens isn’t really that important to politics, as long as the citizenry aren’t angry at you personally.
This. Each regulation by itself sounds like something reasonable / potentially good, but trying to run a business in an environment like this is excessively complicated, and ends up being only something huge businesses are willing to put up with.
Won't someone think of the financial improvement!
Speaking as an Australian who lives in a place that is often considered over regulated ... zero chance.
Turns out living in a place that has laws like "thou shall not lie on the box", and "shrink wrap licences for software shall not override the law" (this is what new EU law says) is pretty nice.
Hell, in Australia we have laws that say ISP's must tell you what minimum bandwidth you are paying for, and horrors, the price displayed must be the price you pay in the end. Oh, the imposition this must place be on a business ... Actually it turns out it's very little. The ISP's already knew how much bandwidth people were using because they pay for it, and as for the difficulty of displaying th price you plan on charging the customer - lets no go there.
Most of the world thinks competitive markets are a good thing. The free markets the USA seems to prefer look to be a form of self flagellation to us.
Wow, your witty riposte really got 'em, eh? But wouldn't
>I know you are, but what am I?
be shorter to type? Or, even better,
>no u
The most insidious form of control is convincing people they are forming their own opinions without any outside influence.
Regardless who you are, the content you are exposed to online and by extension in-person through your peers is shaped by who exposes it in the first place.
I'm speaking beyond just marketing, rather to general attitudes and knowledge.
* EU is 450 million of potential customers.
* USA + Canada is market of 400 million of potential customers
* Japan + Korea is market of 200 million of potential customers
* China does not count, because they will rip off your product and you can do nil against that.
Rest of the world is just too poor to afford the product.
2) India like EU loves its regulations and compared to EU it is bureaucratic hellscape running on bribes.
As for the other point, I still don't think Anthropic is available in the EU. Bard wasn't available at launch either.