The EU wants to regulate your favorite AI tools

Last year was a big one for so-called generative AI, like the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion and the text generator ChatGPT. It was the first time many non-techy people got hands-on experience with an AI system. Despite my best efforts not to think about AI during the holidays, everyone I met seemed to want to talk about it. I met a friend's cousin who admitted to using ChatGPT to write a college essay (and went pale when he heard I had just written a story about how to detect AI-generated text); random people at a bar who, unprompted, started telling me about their experiments with the viral Lensa app; and a graphic designer who was nervous about AI image generators. This year we are going to see AI models with more tricks up their metaphorical sleeves.