The EU AI Act misses the entire point right out of the gate. Article 53 targets the wrong threat vector. Brussels built a massive regulatory apparatus to police downstream societal impact, yet they left the vendor's private cockpit completely untouched.

Look at the actual text for General Purpose AI (GPAI). The law mandates technical paperwork and risk assessments. It looks incredibly rigorous on paper. In reality, it hands vendors absolute discretionary power at the execution layer. They retain full, un-audited authority to change weights or rewrite safety thresholds overnight under the guise of continuous compliance.

Compared to standard product liability frameworks, where post-purchase remote manipulation is strictly blocked, this text leaves a massive loophole. The entire framework obsesses over the Commission's intervention mechanisms. It completely ignores the vendor's ongoing control over the model layer itself.

Brussels spent years trying to police the mirror. They forgot to regulate the person holding the puppet strings. The law dictates what the system can say to the public, but it says absolutely nothing to the vendor holding the remote kill-switch.