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The Business Software Alliance (BSA) warns that the European Commission’s draft guidelines for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models create uncertainty, not clarity, for enterprise software providers. The warning comes in BSA’s response to the Commission’s public consultation, ahead of the AI Act’s enforcement this August. 

In the submission, BSA raises concerns that the guidelines’ reliance on a rigid, compute-based threshold (the so-called “training compute”) creates legal uncertainty and risks misidentifying which companies are covered by the law. The EU AI Office itself acknowledges that this approach would need “to be updated (...) in the future to reflect evolving technological developments” and, therefore, requires constant revision. BSA argues that this shifting, and thus uncertain threshold, would make it difficult for companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, to plan investments and technical decisions related to AI model training. 

“While we understand the need for clarity, such a quantitative approach represents, in essence, an arbitrary threshold – both for the initial classification as a GPAI model and for determining whether or when GPAI model provider obligations apply,” says Hadrien Valembois, Director, Policy – EMEA at BSA. 

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