Absolutely ridiculous. There is no agreed definition for what AI means so anyone could do profiling and data mining on your data - all the stuff GDPR was supposed to protect against - and just say "well I used AI"

So now we still have the bureaucracy and overhead of GDPR and the hostile front ends that ask you in terse language if you are happy for your data to be processed for legitimate interests with none of the actual benefits

FML

The Council has no shame.

Ah so then all that info gets to be on the books of desperate companies in plaintext in vibecoded data buckets

Partly AI-psychosis, but it's also geopolitics (especially as the main beneficiary would be US big tech): US renews push for EU to soften Big Tech rules

The recent Starshield saga shows how dependent Europeans are on certain US capabilities that simply lack a European alternative (the European alternative to Starlink, IRIS2, won't be online before 2030), so with the Ukraine war and the European security order looming in the background of everything, politicians are willing to twist themselves as much as it takes to placate the US.