Technology

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.

BuT tHe FrEe mArKeT

ngl them not wanting me to download it makes me want to download it more than anything else, and I'm usually against ai

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

Ah yes, the "free market" in action.

We are rotten to the core.

They are afraid. Very afraid. Good.

Time to start seeding DeepSeek R1 I guess.

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 thought software and thus code was protected as free speech?

The paste does not go back in the tube....

Capitalism truly thrives on competition and innovation

One word: pathetic.

So you can't download them, you should run them directly on tencent cloud or something? Smart...

US is getting very desperate

This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!! \s

Seriously tho it's a bummer to see how many people here promote all this horseshit.

Just try to stop me. Or anyone for that matter.

The "does it connect to the wifi" mfers came up with this one I'm sure.

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'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.

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.

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?

I'm surprised usually Hawley is pro running

Oh what’s that? Yeah that’s Barbara Streisand’s house

So, only the rest of the world gets superior technology.

The investors will love that.

Torrenting is going to be wild in 2025.

I was playing this whole thing out in my head, and trying to justify the confidence of Trump and pals with such seemingly stupid moves. The only thing I can think of is that they believe that the money they will save (steal) from the government cuts, etc, will make up for the huge losses from the tariffs. And then they would have to believe that their internal AI development is at a point where they can overpower every other nation on earth, and so they don't need those international relations anymore. I mean, technically every single Tesla in the world is a camera for Elon, and a huge percentage of internet traffic goes through US servers.

But then I think, even if they do have all of these advantages, China seems to be catching up pretty quickly, is allied with over 50% of the planet through BRICS, has protected itself from their technological expansion. This is not even including that most other countries in the world will probably want to distance themselves from the US if this keeps up.

Either I'm in denial, or it really is just Trump and Elon are being blinded by their overinflated egos.

These fucking clowns just refuse to learn about how technology works. Fucking morons.

I'm not even in to this shit and I'm going to download it right now because fuck those assholes.

Well, now I'm downloading them all and backing them up.

And the ones I can, I'm going to fork on GitHub just so they have my name.

Bring it on.

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.