Björn Ulvaeus, the frontman of ABBA, expressed concerns to MEPs in Brussels about proposals from Big Tech that could weaken creative rights under the EU’s AI Act. He emphasized the importance of maintaining copyright protections and criticized the current drafting process of a voluntary Code of Practice on General Purpose AI (GPAI). Ulvaeus called for transparency and adherence to the original objectives of the AI Act, which aims to regulate AI tools based on societal risk. The draft has faced criticism from both the creative industry and US tech giants.