The Land of the free sure likes taking away freedoms and banning stuff
That's why I consider that tagline, 'The Land of the Free,' to be the failed punchline of a bad joke now. It hasn't meant anything since before Reagan took office at least.
I don't consider it valid so long as conscription exists, but now it's an utter joke
People there have chosen that by voting republican. I mean, he told what he planned to do and got voted for anyway..
Freedom, but only for rich, white douchebags
These fucking clowns just refuse to learn about how technology works. Fucking morons.
The generation that can't figure out their TV remote is attempting to legislate on cutting edge technology. Fucking series of tubes all over again. It never stopped though really.
The series of tubes is actually a better analogy than what this Bill imagines the internet to be.
This bill is likely sponsored by Sam Altman himself
China : Discovers Anti-gravity
USA : Law preventing study of anti-gravity
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Good luck trying to ban OSS next, which would criminalize basically everyone who's ever used a browser that isn't IE, everyone who's ever used an Android phone or a Chromebook, everyone who's ever used any modern audio or video codec as the bulk of those are OSS too, and would destroy both Big Data and the Cloud, both of which are primarily Linux-based, and send the US back to the web's dark ages, as in going back to when BBSes were popular.
Also, since this bill punishes people by making them spend most of their lives in prison, how are they going to lock up everyone who’s ever used Chromium or Firefox browsers, for example, or everyone who’s ever used Android or ChromeOS, which is most of the country’s population at this point, should that ban extend to a general OSS ban? (this part was originally a reply but I moved it to the main post)
Criminalizing something broadly isn’t usually done with the intention of going after everyone who does it, it’s so when they do single out someone they can charge them even if they haven’t actually caught them doing anything wrong (besides the thing everybody does).
See also: the way laws about taxes and drugs are often enforced.
That doesn't sound like a free market to me.
Time to start seeding DeepSeek R1 I guess.
ngl them not wanting me to download it makes me want to download it more than anything else, and I'm usually against ai
They are afraid. Very afraid. Good.
This would also effectively ban the use of any research produced by a Chinese national. Any papers which cite the work of Chinese labs (most of them) would be illegal, as this could be interpreted as aiding Chinese AI research.
I thought software and thus code was protected as free speech?
Free speech and expression is one of the many previously-thought-to-be-inalienable rights that are in the current administration's crosshairs. If I could flee this country for, say, the Netherlands, I'd do so in a heartbeat, unfortunately I can't.
The right to free speak can be compromised if it interferes with other, more important rights...
... like the right of shareholders to make money.
Ah, the supporters of the free market strike again. No competition allowed, Sam Altman and his American billionaire peers are entitled to all the money.
Oh well. The rest of the world can benefit from Chinese AI models.
Exhibit no. 47475 of their parasite behavior
I'm not even in to this shit and I'm going to download it right now because fuck those assholes.
Capitalism truly thrives on competition and innovation
US is getting very desperate
It is much worse. I hope I am reading it wrong, but:
The term ‘‘technology’’ [...] includes [...] any semiconductor, circuit board, operating system, graphics processing unit, central processing unit, tenor processing unit, field-programmable gate array, random access memory, hard drive, solid-state drive, dataflow architecture, or cloud-computing service, that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, completed, [...] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence [...] and any other hardware, software, equipment, device, component, robotic computer, processor, network [...] that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, [...] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence.
This would mean that importing and exporting literally any piece of IT equipment, from a Ubuntu installer to a RAM chip, is illegal. Good luck & have fun.
It's good old "everything is now illegal" law, selective enforcement does the rest. Straight out of the young dictatorship handbook
Rip iPhone.
BuT tHe FrEe mArKeT
So you can't download them, you should run them directly on tencent cloud or something? Smart...
I don't even like ai but this just makes me want to download Deepseek as much as I can
uh... no.
Government banned Chinese AI?
Step 1: ask a friend from any other country to fork the model (brotip: use magnets for faster acquiring a friend)
Step 2: have your friend rename the AI.
Step 3: now the model is from said country.
Step 4: download the model from said fork.
OpenAI will go bankrupt. US Government will be jelly. Problem?
Oh what’s that? Yeah that’s Barbara Streisand’s house
Awesome, so on top of all the other crap, like a economy that is going off a cliff, the US wants to actually get further behind on AI, just so that assman van make a few extra dollars
I'd like to point out that it is only one single proposal. If this does not get shut down, then it is time to be worried. But for now, it might just be one glue-sniffing Congressperson sniffing the wrong kind of glue one morning.
Being open weights, if I, resident of Ijustmadeitupista n take it and make a very slight tweak, would it be OK for this rule?
And, if my pal from China takes a US open model and tweaks it to criticize CCP, will it be banned?
I honestly think politicians should think just a bit before trying to legislate things they clearly don't understand.
I'm surprised usually Hawley is pro running
This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!! \s
Seriously tho it's a bummer to see how many people here promote all this horseshit.
Lol, protectionism for the administration's fellators.
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