"WITNESS expresses concern regarding the changes in the EU AI Act’s third draft of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice (CoP). These modifications aim to lessen the burden of applying the EU AI Act on General-Purpose AI (GPAI) model providers. This directly impacts transparency, risk assessments and copyright, and undermines fundamental rights. We also believe these changes negatively impact the information environment and the ability to detect the use of AI and ensure content authenticity. They prioritise reduced implementation over obligations towards more robust rights protections.
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While one of the goals of the document is to provide a detailed framework for AI providers to ensure their models are safe, secure, and compliant with relevant regulations, we have concerns with a reduction of emphasis on some obligations now present in the latest version of the CoP, as well as a possible reduction in the scope of the systemic risks to be mitigated by GPAI providers."
https://blog.witness.org/2025/03/eu-ai-act-ensuring-rights-disclosure/