US social media company Meta will not sign the EU’s AI Code of Practice on General Purpose AI (GPAI), the company’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan said in a statement on Friday.
“Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI. We have carefully reviewed the European Commission’s Code of Practice for GPAI models and Meta won’t be signing it,” he said, adding that the Code “introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act.”
