Spain to impose massive fines for not labelling AI-generated content

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MADRID, March 11 (Reuters) - Spain's government approved a bill on Tuesday imposing massive fines on companies that use content generated by artificial intelligence (AI) without properly labelling it as such, in a bid to curb the use of so-called "deepfakes".

The bill adopts guidelines from the European Union's landmark AI Act imposing strict transparency obligations on AI systems deemed to be high-risk, Digital Transformation Minister Oscar Lopez told reporters.

 

"AI is a very powerful tool that can be used to improve our lives ... or to spread misinformation and attack democracy," he said.

Spain is among the first EU countries to implement the bloc's rules, considered more comprehensive than the United States' system that largely relies on voluntary compliance and a patchwork of state regulations.

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The Spanish bill, which needs to be approved by the lower house, classifies non-compliance with proper labelling of AI-generated content as a "serious offence" that can lead to fines of up to 35 million euros ($38.2 million) or 7% of their global annual turnover.

 

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I'm actually on board with this.  I think AI derivatives should have a signature that denotes they are AI generated.  The problem is there's no real way to enforce it and AI has gotten even better at removing watermarks.  Could hefty fines be the way?  Probably not because it doesn't hold end users accountable for what they use AI to create.  If the power of AI is kept in the hands of just a few people it could work, but that's a dangerous precedent.  At the very least, Spain plans to cash in!

 

Me, I'll keep using LM Studio to run Cognitive AI on my local system.  It's so awesome to have an AI that's read the Linux manual that I can ask questions to when I get stumped.

 

Grok's probably in trouble though.  It seems like it's primary use is to create meme's / fake images on X.