Two EU AI Act translations use FLOPs/s instead of cumulative FLOPs (www.arxo.io)

Recent discrepancies in the translations of the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act have emerged, specifically concerning Article 51(2) in the Portuguese and Croatian versions. These translations incorrectly specify that the threshold of 10^25 floating-point operations (FLOPs) is measured "per second," while the other 22 language versions document this threshold in terms of total cumulative operations without a time unit. This distinction is crucial because it alters the interpretation of computational limits for AI systems, potentially affecting how compliance is assessed under the regulation. The implications of this translation error are significant for the AI/ML community. If the threshold is interpreted as operations per second, it suggests a much higher operational capacity for AI training compared to the intended cumulative measurement. For example, a model utilizing 2×10^25 operations over a million seconds would imply a training rate of only 2×10^19 operations per second, which does not breach the stated limit. The proposed corrective action is to remove the time-based language from the Portuguese and Croatian texts, which would align them with the intended cumulative measurement and maintain the integrity of the regulatory framework.