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Meta has now teamed up with Spotify for the second time in seeking clarity in the open-source AI operations within the European Union. In blog posts published parallelly last week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said the current privacy statutes outside of common Artificial lntelligence laws in the European Union have slowed up the pace of innovation.
Meta knew that it wouldn’t be able to train its AI models with the public data from Facebook and Instagram since the guidance of the regulators was called into question. The company additionally stated that European citizens would remain behind some steps of the latest AI-Powered products and services. Spotify also boasted of how early investments in AI technologies went on to make it one of the biggest successes on the music distribution platform. But now, complications created by unclear laws are holding them back from pushing even further to enhance user experience through providing open-source AI.
Reading between the lines, Spotify may sound as though it is trying to use this AI system from Meta but, thanks to regulation, cannot. Both companies agree on the fact that simple rules would help open-source AI growth for the benefit of European developers and creators.
While Meta and Spotify decry overreaching restrictions in this case, they have at one time or another supported regulations that put their common adversary Apple at a disadvantage. For instance, the companies supported an EU ruling naming Apple a “digital gatekeeper” and ordering it to change the way it approaches its App Store policies. Not disputing the necessary oversight, Zuckerberg and Ek decried the Apple compliance measures under the Digital Markets Act as overly burdensome. Spotify had similarly slammed Apple’s response as “extortion.” In simple words, Meta and Spotify have made a new joint venture and said that the Current EU AI regulation is holding back their new innovations and services at the expense of open technologies. They used to support the legislation when it affected their competitors like Apple.
