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Well, last time I checked the news, content moderation was still a thing in Europe. They're mandated to do it. And Meta doesn't like to lose millions and millions of users... So they abide. We have a different situation with AI. Some companies have restricted their AI models due to them fearing the EU come up with an unfavorable legislation. And Europe sucks at coming up with AI regulations. So Meta and a few others have started disallowing use of their open-weight models in Europe. I as a German don't get a license to run llama3.2.
You can do a lot of things with regulation. You can force theaters to be built so some specification so they won't catch on fire, build amusement parks with safety in mind. Not put toxic stuff in food. All these regulations work fine. I don't see why it should be an entirely different story with this kind if technology.
But with that said, we all suck at getting ahold of the big tech companies. They can get away with way more than they should be able to. Everywhere in the world. And ultimately I don't think the situation in the US is entirely hopeless. I just don't see any focus on this. And I see some other major issues that need to be dealt with first.
I mean you're correct. Most of the Google, Meta and Amazons are from the USA. We import a lot of the culture, good and bad, with them. Or it's the other way round, idk. Regardless, we get both culture and some of the big companies. Still, I think we're not in the same situation (yet).