Hi from Germany. In case you were wondering, we regulated ourselves to the point where I can't even see the demo of SAM2 until some other service than Meta deploys it.
Does anyone know if this already happened?
Does anyone know if this already happened?
The same thing happened with the Threads app which was withheld from European users last year for no actual technical reason. Now it’s been released and nothing changed in between.
These free models and apps are bargaining chips for Meta against the EU. Once the regulatory situation settles, they’ll do what they always do and adapt to reach the largest possible global audience.
This video segmentation model could be used by self-driving cars to detect pedestrians, or in road traffic management systems to detect vehicles, either of which would make it a Chapter III High-Risk AI System.
And if we instead say it's not specific to those high-risk applications, it is instead a general purpose model - wouldn't that make it a Chapter V General Purpose AI Model?
Obviously you and I know the "general purpose AI models" chapter was drafted with LLMs (and their successors) in mind, rather than image segmentation models - but it's the letter of the law, not the intent, that counts.
No technical reason, but legal reasons. IIRC it was about cross-account data sharing from Instagram to Threads, which is a lot more dicey legally in the EU than in NA.
They’ve also had separate apps in the past that shared an Instagram account, like IGTV (2018 - 2022).
The Threads delay was primarily a lobbying ploy.
It seems that https://mullvad.net is a necessary part of my Internet toolkit these days, for many reasons.