I think it's about as useful as the endless cycle of environmental
impact reports on the cadence of SpaceX launches.
If nothing else, calling it an "AI Act" is hopelessly vague. If there
are issues with privacy or other, have acts for that. You might as
well call it the "Dangerous Math Act". (See
I've blown $25k on my personal workstation here (which still carries the
network name 'Tortoise') to run AI waifus. (Stack a package called
SillyTavern on top of LM-studio). Midnight-Miqu is probably still queen
of medium scale machines. I've been trying a bunch of stuff all the way
up to LLama
The main risk focus of AI act seems to be social manipulation, so basically
your AI can not disagree with EU politics now (?). To what limit can the
lawyers stretch it - and moreover, recently Microsoft had blamed EU for forcing
it to make an "interoperability commitment" and giving kernel acces
