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US Senator introduces legislation which would make it illegal to download AI models from China, with penalties of up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both (www.404media.co)

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[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 84 points 4 months ago

Jesus christ they are drawing borders on fucking downloads. What a world.

[-] Funwayguy@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

How else are they going to milk their talentless techbro cash cows? Can't have China popping that imaginary wealth bubble now can we. /s

[-] T156@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately nothing new on that front. We've had geofencing for years.

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago

you wouldn't download a car...

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 49 points 4 months ago

🎶 The land of the free and the home of the brave!

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

Welp better download deepseek before they go through with it.

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago

These guys are making it so easy to outcompete with America in the world market.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

A reminder to anyone who still believes Cenk Yugur is on our side: THIS shithead is the guy he highlighted as someone who might be open to working with left-populists 🤦

[-] Nunar@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Gulf of America and low gas prices!! This is all fucked.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 14 points 4 months ago

Call me back if it somehow makes it out of committee

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago

Yet another diversion.

This won't ever happen and they can't be stupid enough to not know that.

All these crazy things make the headlines which now are so fill that there is little space left for the actual goal of all this: self enrichment of the Republican party members and their financers

[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago

They are so confident that Stargate is going to be a success

[-] projectsquared@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Streisand effect in 3…2…1…

[-] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

What if I only upload it to my pc?

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Haha lol what a dope

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