Everyone here is thinking Europe is going to kill AI in their borders. Honestly it reminds me of how everyone derided EU antitrust as just milking Google for fines, until everyone soured on Google and realized what the EU already knew.

The EU is not anti-AI. In fact, they have stronger protections for AI training than the US does: EU law already has a copyright exception for "text and data mining" (TDM) which covers AI training. The problem is that OpenAI has been incredibly cagey with the way their models get built and trained. This is kind of contrary to the spirit of the TDM exception: it's for scientists to do science with, and OpenAI is being very much not like a scientific organization and more like a commercial enterprise.