Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.
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Yes, yes, burn it all. Make the people very very angry. It takes a lot to engage a Luddite and we need them all.
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The right to free speak can be compromised if it interferes with other, more important rights...
... like the right of shareholders to make money.
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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
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I already have every version downloaded on my nas, more cause I hate redownloading things and am a pack rat.
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Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
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Exactly.
We will just put Trump porn on the whitehouse.gov site to show you how little control America has over its digital economy.
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Hey deepseek. Remake Lemon Party but with Trump, Vance, and Elon.
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BuT tHe FrEe mArKeT
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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?
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China : Discovers Anti-gravity
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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.
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Doesn't a VPN already circumvent this? ISPs already send out copyright violation emails if you torrent the wrong thing, but not if you do it through a VPN.
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The way it's written, it sounds like we could download it in the US, after the law was passed, for 180 days, and then do whatever we want with it. Unfortunately, after that point, the test of it being "developed" in China would probably be met for anything but a near-total rewrite.
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The Land of the free sure likes taking away freedoms and banning stuff
