In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges. OpenAI rival Stability AI, for example, is currently being sued by stock image maker Getty Images for using its copyrighted data to train its AI image generator.
Aaaaaand there it is. They don’t want to admit how much copyrighted materials they’ve been using.
You can read the actual proposal here - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A52021PC0206
The stuff in the article isn’t a problem IMO, but the main issue is the huge amount of bureaucracy for smaller companies and initiatives.
Almost everything counts as “AI” :