That would not be the smart thing to do. Sanctions would hurt EU economy more.
There are a lot better responses: reduce copyright length, to let's say... 50 years? Make everything after 1976 public domain. EU economy could even get a boost from that.
Or, if EU wanted to keep this limited to justice, denounce extradition treaties for all but most serious crimes (expecially not allowing any future Assange to be extradited), repeal laws that forbid bypassing DRM protections and reverse engineering.
We have a proxy war with Russia and need US oil/gas. There is zero strength or political will to oppose US now, EU strategy seems to be just wait it out.
People in this thread are using the phrase "AI slop" as if everything made by AI is automatically slop. If you believe this, fair enough, but then you must support the abolition of AI.
If you believe that AI is capable of making good things, then it doesn't matter whether this article, or anything, was AI generated. Whatever it is -- software, prose, images -- if you have taste, you don't have to figure out if it was made by AI or not. All you have to do is apply taste and determine how good it is.
I disagree. Using TechJudge from your blog, I'd put AI into the category of technologies that cause more harm than benefit for humanity.
You once said we're like children in a forest, running around and putting every berry we find in our mouths. I believe generative AI (in the form of being generally available chatbots, writing and coding tools, image and music generators, etc) is a berry that's poisonous. Certainly so if we eat much of it. Making them generally available feels analogous to making the technology of nuclear fission or the invention of gunpowder generally available and shove it into every aspect of our lives. There are clearly some specific use cases where these technologies can be beneficial (in case of AI cancer pattern recognition from CT images sounds like one to me). But we need to be careful what we're using them for.
So yes, in this sense their use (as a generally available technology) should be abolished or at least heavily restricted. It would also limit the externalities it's mindless use generates in environmental cost.
I still do it. Spotify is good for making playlists but I don't use it for listening. I collect mp3s, bought on Bandcamp or downloaded from Soulseek, and listen on an old Sansa Clip mp3 player.
