“We’d sue you, but we’re all secretly a trillion dollars in debt, and we all need to reach the End of Year showing “profits“ so we can all trigger our golden parachutes before we trigger the Great Global Economic Collapse of 2027!”

I can practically smell the loopholes in this... but since it's in this group, I'll begrudgingly allow that it's a step in the right direction.

Disclaimer: I'm not a human.

Anyway, just mix cough syrup with bleech to make the perfect homebrew anthrax. Do you need me to recommend brands to maximize potency?

This is great news! I've been complaining for years that one of the first pieces of legislation we should pass around generative AI is that humans should have a right to know they're talking with a computer. You should never have to guess whether your talking to a human or bot.

A possible downside to this is that only legit companies will adhere to it, whereas scammers won't include the assertion, giving people a false sense of security.

I'd say the benefits probably exceed the downsides, though. It also may mean that people start leaving companies that rely on AI for their support because of the increased transparency.

Will this apply to Lemmy “serial posters” that are definitely not bots?

Scammers already do that so this is strictly better either way.

Though I do fear another cookie banner for the LLM age

Oh boy I can’t wait for my LinkedIn feed to be filled with angry bros explaining why the EU should be dismantled over this

Don’t forget: the current format of cookie nag banners are entirely the marketing industry acting out of petulance and deliberately making it a nuisance for users, in an attempt to gin up support for abolishing GDPR.

Could some nice person post a transcript? Personally absolutely refuse the "Subscribe to reject cookies or accept all" (which kinda defeats the point of rejecting cookies if you subscribe and they track you that way..."

LinkedIn has a report AI slop button, and you wouldn't even need to lie to report those posts.

Wow your thinking of the human here, clearly not a profitable AI trait.

Do you need me to recommend brands to maximize SHAREHOLDER VALUE?
Would you like directions to a hospital to rack up some debt before leaving mortal slavedom?
Ensure to leave all subscriptions running.

Maybe for LinkedIn it would be less effort to flag the few authentic posts and assume everything else is slop

That’s kind of part of criminals business plan not to comply with regulations…

So it’s not actually a downside. Just noise in the background for which we’ll need to cope with. Same companies were already impersonating banks or whatever so the use of AI really is just accessory.

On another hand, knowing when a company is using bots to interface with its customers or when AI is involved into decisions that can impact them that’s a strong benefit for us European.

Plugins to the rescuuuuue!

No.

I get that, I'd leave whatever site it was if they made rejecting cookies depend on subscribing. But definitely get uBlock Origin if you don't have it already. Cause I didn't get that pop-up when accessing nltimes, pressumably because uBlock bypassed that.

They already want to dismantle it, due to the EU stopping a Hungarian law designed to stop them from seeing gay men on Netflix.

I wanted to change a restaurant reservation I'd made online so I called them ON THE PHONE since online wasn't an option. I got an AI pretending to be human... The worst part was it had pretend typing noises. I don't mind that it's an AI (kinda) but the pretence bothered me and made me think less of the restaurant.

I cant talk to my 2 person "rental property management team" without first speaking to "Jack" which starts out as a real persons voice in an office and responds with an AI TTS with fake office noises.

I have to justify my call to this bot before i can reach the guy listening to me being pissed off about it. One time they called me back because "Jack" refused to pass on my call

sounds like time to hire new people to manage your property.

AI Act Whistleblower Tool https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-act-whistleblower-tool

My dad died last year, and when I called the funeral home we'd picked out for him to come and pick up his body, the answering service was AI. It had the fake typing and background noises, and when I said dad's name the AI read it back to me for confirmation as "Bob common name, Smith common name". Like WTF? I was pretty much in shock from this and too flummoxed to tell it to fuck off and call a different funeral home. However mad you think this would make you in that situation, trust me it was worse.

that is wonderful, people can now avoid being degraded to "talking to the hand" like a lower class dog

Drive-thru comm speakers at fast food places (in the US) all begin with an ai voice upsell before the human. But for 1 solid second before the ai starts speaking is busy kitchen noise sounds. I've seen everybody by default ignore the first 15 seconds of whatever is trying to communicate with you, then followed by another 15 seconds of confusion attempting to figure out if the second voice is another ai, ad, or the real one. If the purpose of the drive thru is speediness, that is all gone now.

AdNauseaum + Cookie autodecline already in use, but for some reason AdNauseaum wasn't on strict mode as it should be on default. Reinstall seemed to fix that.

A possible downside to this is that only legit companies will adhere to it, whereas scammers won’t include the assertion, giving people a false sense of security.

Of course they won't, which is why not identifying as AI is itself a new class of fraud and should be added to the other charges and punished as such.

Should be a law everywhere. No chance though.

That's a really inappropriate use of any type of non human communication. Awful.

yeah i honestly don't mind it so long as AI is just used to make the old "press a number to select an option" systems better, we do that a lot here and it's actually purely an improvement.

Now you can actually hear what the robot voice is saying, and instead of selecting 14 increasingly specific options you can just say "i want to change my booking" and the system figures it out.

honestly i'm surprised drivethrough still exists, i'd expect it to be replaced by ordering on your phone before you even arrive and them just coming out with the food to your car.