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That's the Parliament wishlist, not the actual text of the law. (At least I think that's the version that got passed).
Stuff like that is why it's a good idea parliamentarians aren't drafting stuff, but an army of technocrats. It's all too easy to vote in a training requirement into a section about transparency when it's 3 o'clock in the morning and you and everyone else in the committee wants to go home.
Here's the transparency article:
Most of the AI uses out there only have these very limited requirements mostly around transparency. There's some stuff about training in Article 2 listing outlawed practices, e.g. you may not train models to be subliminal.
Where things get strict is around things like using AI to screen prospective employees where you have to make sure they're not picking up any unwarranted biases, e.g. judging by sex or nationality. Even more stricter are high-risk systems, listed in Annex III, which are largely uses in administration, critical infrastructure, etc.
All in all I'd say as a first of its kind, the law is pretty darn good, in particular that it classifies requirements for systems not by technology employed, but by their area of application. And the "likeness of natural person" has arts and freedom of speech exception so this kind of stuff doesn't even need disclosure.
Speak about yourself.