Twitter “will be banned” from the European Union in the event of a breach of its rules, said French Minister Delegate for Digital Jean-Noël Barrot on Monday, who at the same time expressed concern about future “excessive” European regulation in terms of artificial intelligence (AI). “Twitter, if he does not comply with our rules, will be banned, in the event of a repeat offense, from the European Union”, hammered on Franceinfo the Minister Jean-Noël Barrot.
This statement comes after Twitter officially released the European Union’s code of practice against online disinformation, announced on Saturday by European Commissioner for Industry Thierry Breton. The latter had recalled in a message on Twitter that the social network, led by American billionaire Elon Musk, remained legally subject to compliance with European rules.
“Twitter plays an important role in public debate, but we cannot take the risk that a social network such as Twitter will be taken hostage by the proponents of disinformation and therefore our public debate, our democracy be affected”, insisted Jean-Noël Barrot. “That’s why we have clear rules and Twitter will have to follow them,” he added.
Asked about future European regulations on generative artificial intelligence (the “AI Act”) currently under discussion, the French minister, while recognizing the need to “give a framework” to the development of AI, tackled the position of the European Parliament which risks ’taking the European Union out of technological history’.
“At this stage, the European Parliament’s position is excessive because it imposes audit obligations, transparency obligations which are excessive for this type of model”, like ChatGPT, he said. These AI models “are in a frantic race in which we must not get left behind or we will lock ourselves into decades of technological subjugation and dependence,” he continued, calling to “invest” in the field.
“It is imperative to have in the coming months models such as those developed by these American giants”, he concluded, recalling that Google had for the time being given up deploying its AI Bard in the EU. , in the face of regulatory constraints.
