Perhaps the fines themselves act as a de facto AI tax that some people have been trying to promote in the political sphere, and we'll see how successful it is.

Fines escalate when there is no compliance.

Then they'll just pull out eventually and save everyone the trouble.

Like how Apple famously pulled out of the EU?

They did with some services. Not sure if there is a list. For one I am missing phone mirroring to my mac which they disabled because they do not want to give api access.