Will Chinese Open Source Agree to EU Watermarking?

Reddit r/artificial 08/22/26, 09:04 PM News

Summary

The article discusses whether Chinese open-source AI labs will comply with EU watermarking requirements, expressing concerns about the impact on free and open outputs in the global AI community.

I wonder if people are thinking and worried about this yet? Anthopic, OpenAI and the western AI labs have agreed to watermark AI outputs. Some of us want free and open and untracked and un-modified outputs for many reasons. Do you think the Chinese labs will succumb to the EU pressure and implement the watermarking? Will there be some that dont? Or do people not even care about this? I don't like it and if the EU makes stupid laws, or the USA or another country for that matter, the rest of the world shouldn't be affected. My hope is that the chinese labs dont add it and that they stay free and open source. What do you think?

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