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MEPs approve world's first comprehensive AI law

The EU's AI Act seeks to counter the risks associated with the rapidly growing AI sector.

These would require producers of some so-called general-purpose AI systems, that can be harnessed for a range of tasks, to be transparent about the material used to train their models and to comply with EU copyright law. Some artists, writers and musicians have argued the process of "scraping" huge volumes of data, including potentially their own works, from virtually all corners of the internet violates copyright laws. Lawyer-linguists, whose job is to check and translate laws, will scour its text and the European Council - composed of representatives of EU member states - will also need to endorse it, though that is expected to be a formality.

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