Comment by Imustaskforhelp
2 days ago
> If the site is found to have breached the rules of EU's under the Digital Services Act, the Commission could fine the company up to 6% of its global annual turnover.
I don't mean disrespect to EU but the fact that the amount of fines in percentages is same when Italy decided to fine worldwide income of Cloudflare 6% for not effectively giving into banning any website Italy says in very short period of time effectively asking Cf to do something very bad for internet for the lobbying in football at italy
And you get the same fine as that when your platform is LITERALLY creating AI generated nsfw deepfakes of LITERAL CHILDREN.
Um.. People might think 6% is enough but is it? To all the woman who felt unsafe on X or were created deepfakes of, would that 6% compensation be enough where they felt publicly humiliated.
One can't put a number on this thing imo. At this point, Pedophilia's a serious crime, EU should try to charge criminally X.AI for all woman (European or not) who got mentally harassed by the bot.
What's on the internet stays on the internet (archive/wayback machine or not/other), can you imagine how much impact could be mentally on a child whose such photos were generated?
I mean something's better than nothing but also X.ai or grok deserves much much more severe punishment than a 6% fine imo.
One fine was imposed by the Mafia, the other by child porn law enforcement.
Yes, A) there shouldn't be mafia period.
But also B) if both companies get fined almost same for i) doing something so obscene that I don't want to describe it and ii) thinking that banning any website or every in a short notice of 30 minutes worldwide by the mafia is undemocratic
This just doesn't send a strong signal if this is the only thing which happens to X, It would be a slap on the wrist for almost war crimes that it committed.
Charge them criminally for the first time. I read it when anthropic got fined I think ~6% or some Billions when they literally scraped all books without any consent and teh consensus on HN was to charge them criminally.
If the only result out of doing crime is fine, then crime's legal.
And Musk can ban EU from X. Most EU politicians would not like it as they use X to promote themselves.