Observed Signal · Feb 16, 2023 · Regulation · Source: Trending Topics · Impact: 3/5 · Sentiment: Negative
EU AI Act Could Classify ChatGPT, Lensa, Vall-E as High-Risk
The European Union's proposed AI Act could place widely used AI tools such as ChatGPT, Lensa, and Vall-E into a 'high-risk' category. Annex III, introduced by EU Parliament rapporteurs Brando Benifei and Dragoș Tudorache, would impose strict compliance requirements—including risk assessment, dataset quality, logging, documentation, transparency, human oversight, and robustness—before such systems could enter the market. The list includes biometric identification and categorization apps, AI-generated text that could be mistaken for human content unless human-reviewed and legally attributable, AI-generated audiovisual content depicting events that never occurred, and algorithms affecting employment, insurance, education, essential services, vulnerable groups, and elections. Real-time biometric identification in public spaces would be banned outright. As of publication, EU Parliament negotiations had not reached a compromise, leaving the final scope of high-risk categories and bans open.
The EU AI Act is a major regulatory framework that could impose significant compliance obligations on AI systems used in marketing, content generation, and analytics, affecting many AI-powered advertising and MarTech tools in Europe.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Annex III of the EU AI Act, proposed by rapporteurs Brando Benifei and Dragoș Tudorache, adds biometric identification, AI text generators, and AI audio-visual tools to the high-risk list.
- Real-time biometric identification in public spaces would be completely prohibited under the proposal.
- High-risk AI systems would need to meet obligations including risk assessment, data quality, activity logging, documentation, user information, human oversight, and robustness before market entry.
- AI-generated text that could be mistaken for human-created content, such as ChatGPT and Jasper.ai, would be considered risky unless reviewed and legally attributed to a responsible person or organization.
- Microsoft's Vall-E and Murf AI are named as affected AI services for generating audio-visual content that could depict people doing or saying things that never happened.
Connected Companies & Entities
3 Entities mapped“The proposal would affect AI-generated text that could be mistaken for human text, including ChatGPT, Jasper.ai, and similar services....”
“AI services such as Vall-E (Microsoft) that create audio-visual content depicting events that never happened would be affected....”
“AI services such as Murf AI would be affected as audio-visual generation tools....”
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