The General-Purpose AI Code of Practice is now here, but there are still some elements missing: The Commission has promised to deliver additional “guidelines on key concepts related to general-purpose AI models” by the end of July. The next wave of EU AI Act rules that the code and guidelines are supposed to help explain enter force on August 2.
A model documentation form makes up one-third of the code’s nine-page chapter on transparency, covering aspects of model design including data sources, training, energy consumption, licensing, distribution, and acceptable use. The idea is that enterprises will fill out the form for each model they create to demonstrate their compliance with the AI Act’s obligations.
The six-page chapter on copyright calls on enterprises crawling the web to feed their AI models to respect protection measures intended to prevent scraping of websites such as robots.txt or Cloudflare’s new measures to identify AI bots. Code-compliant AI models should also be designed so as to prevent them regurgitating copyright works.
