Domingos: GDPR purpose-limitation makes LLM pretraining illegal in Europe
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-21
Computer scientist Pedro Domingos argues that LLM pretraining is illegal in Europe, since GDPR restricts data use to the purpose for which it was originally gathered. The provocative claim highlights the fundamental tension between EU privacy regulation and AI development.
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