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EU dials up scrutiny of major platforms over GenAI risks ahead of elections
The European Commission has sent a series of formal requests for information (RFI) to Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, TikTok and X about how they're The European Commission has sent a series of formal requests for information to Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, TikTok and X about how they're handling risks related to the use of generative AI.
The asks, which relate to Bing, Facebook, Google Search, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, and X, are being made under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the bloc’s rebooted ecommerce and online governance rules. A tech industry accord to combat deceptive use of the AI during elections that came out of the Munich Security Conference last month, with backing from a number of the same platforms the Commission is sending RFIs now, does not go far enough in the EU’s view. A Commission official said its forthcoming election security guidance will go “much further”, pointing to a triple whammy of safeguards it plans to leverage: Starting with the DSA’s “clear due diligence rules”, which give it powers to target specific “risk situations”; combined with more than five years’ experience from working with platforms via the (non-legally binding) Code of Practice Against Disinformation which the EU intends will become a Code of Conduct under the DSA; and — on the horizon — transparency labelling/AI model marking rules under the incoming AI Act.
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