The Council’s change on its own weakens the act, and will allow companies to avoid conformity assessments for the exactly the AI systems that will need them the most.
But the new article also makes it possible to impose requirements that will only solely affect general purpose systems, without burdening the development of all other low-risk AI with unnecessary requirements.
My own opinion is that it is a double-edged sword
The Council’s change on its own weakens the act, and will allow companies to avoid conformity assessments for the exactly the AI systems that will need them the most.
But the new article also makes it possible to impose requirements that will only solely affect general purpose systems, without burdening the development of all other low-risk AI with unnecessary requirements.