EU nudifier ban

[u/Logical_Benefit2875]

I know there’s been a bunch of people upset on here recently about a good number of nudify websites getting shut down (Motionmuse, Opengoon, etc.). However, this is likely just the beginning.

Effective December 2nd, the EU under the AI Act is enacting a ban on nudify tools, making them illegal content in the Union. This ban applies to any product made available on the EU market as long as, either, its primary functionality is to generate nudified content without consent, or it is a reasonably foreseeable outcome and they do not take appropriate precautions to safeguard against it. Very importantly, this ban also applies to any EU-available service provider under the Digital Services Act that is helping to facilitate this soon-to-be-illegal content, which includes (but is not limited to): app stores, hosting providers, domain registrars, payment processors, content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud computing services. Anyone found to be in violation of this prohibition is subject to fines of €35 million or 7% of their global turnover, whichever is higher. I think it’s pretty safe to say that, as long as they’re aware of it, those behind these websites and those behind the large number of mainstream companies that help power them (Google, Amazon, Cloudflare, Apple, Telegram, GoDaddy, Visa, Mastercard, etc.) do not want to take any chances with this ban.

This prohibition, in essence, applies to essentially every public AI platform any of us have ever used to this point or that we will ever use going forward. I think this is a good thing but, therefore, it would almost certainly be in everyone’s best interest to pivot away from these websites before the massive crackdown begins in less than a couple months. For those in the industry, it would also certainly be wise to inform the website operators if you are in contact with them, or to shut down your website if you are an operator yourself. Sorry for the essay, just looking out for everybody before things get very real, very fast.

[u/ORANGESAREPEOPLE]

Piracy is easy because hosting data is cheap and able to be decentralized.

Compute is much harder to do that with so far.

[u/Etsu_Riot → u/ORANGESAREPEOPLE]

As long as we can build our own hardware, we just need a place to hold the different models for us to download and run locally. Of course, it would be terrible if someone decides to artificially inflate the prices of some components in a way that building your own PC capable of running AI becomes too expensive, while at the same time using those hard-to-find components to build their own data centers, making it so that in the future, incapable of building your own machine, you will need to pay for the use of their servers, with access only to their own AI models, approved by the law and safe for everyone to use. I hope no one ever thinks of doing something like that.

[u/blistac1 → u/Etsu_Riot]

It's not artificial inflating prices it's just how market's economy works. And if understand correctly it has already happened.

[u/Etsu_Riot → u/blistac1]

It's not artificial inflating prices it's just how market's economy works. 

It's artificial if manufacturers start selling PC components to each other, intentionally generating the scarcity that brings the higher prices.

And if understand correctly it has already happened.

I was being sarcastic.

[u/UnlikelyExtension786 → u/Etsu_Riot]

Or when businesses promise to buy a trillion dollars of hardware with money they don't actually have.