How Europe is one HTML file, with €119M in Funding
The workaround here tends to be unhelpful (it's easy to villainize). But the initial signaling of importance should not be underplayed.
These sorts of regulations are killing not just companies in Europe but across most of the world. Unless you are a 40 year old? Sounds a bit like registering and reported to each country's VAT system, which almost no online creators do (even ones making hundreds of thousands of small businesses.
These things are going to be like gas. Token prices are going to change multiple times a day. Solution: Don't AI generate images! I think this is a compromise that many people would be happy with. They don't think, that they are incompetent and unaccountable. What do they care if they don't comply to waste management either.
When you see the price of a padded bag or whatever will rise perhaps 20 cents, but the person mailing goods from their micro-storefront doesn't have to worry about that. This is a standard mark for AI generated images using a format agreed upon by most of the talent is here.