Yeah, I read the language on their website and they seemed to be holding a much stricter line. Here the line seems more blurry where :

• in that same paragraph they say “remain voluntary” and “should require”
• “unless strictly necessary” is undefined. Is it all adult contents or banks, insurance and administrative procedure (which already often require IDs) that count as necessary ?
• Do they have solutions for that “privacy preserving” proof of age ?

I am not part the campaign so I’m only trying to guess.

Edit: I have mailed up the Representative of the ECI, I will send an update if i receive a response.

Everyone don’t forget to Sign, Cross-post, Federate and Share everywhere you can !

While open source (well more like “open weights”) cannot easily be enshittified they can absolutely be a stealthily made advertising tool.

For example : if you ask “how do I do X” it could recommand to you based on who paid the company making the LLM more money and you would be none the wiser.

For more obvious bias just ask Chinese models about Taiwan and other problematic subject to the Chinese gov and you’ll see. And the source code isn’t telling us anything about if the LLM weights encode some kind of propaganda, advertising or bias toward/against some entities.