Big Tech companies put pressure on the European Commission to water down the Code of Practice on General Purpose AI – which should help providers of AI models comply with the EU’s AI Act – a report by Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) and LobbyControl published on Wednesday suggests.
Tech companies “enjoyed structural advantages” in the drafting process of the Code, and “weakened the rules around advanced AI", the groups found in a joint investigation based on internal interviews and analysis of lobby papers.
