uh... no.
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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.
China : Discovers Anti-gravity
USA : Law preventing study of anti-gravity
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.
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)
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.
Not me. It's the rest of you.
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?
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 Netherlands would be high on my list, too. What a pleasant place.
NJB's praise of their infrastructure would have me sold on them if I could actually flee the US.
NJB
Neil jeGrasse Byson?
Not Just Bikes.
The right to free speak can be compromised if it interferes with other, more important rights...
... like the right of shareholders to make money.
The paste does not go back in the tube....
It can if you kind of squeeze the tube a little bit and then let it suck the paste back in. But it's really tedious.
Capitalism truly thrives on competition and innovation
One word: pathetic.
8 words: hilary clinton ai voice talking about ball sucking
Alright, now I'm hooked
The benefit of being an early adopter is my folder full of Donald Trump/Congressional Republicans suckin' and fuckin' before all of the fun models got taken down from easy access.
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
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This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!! \s
Seriously tho it's a bummer to see how many people here promote all this horseshit.
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.
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.
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.
Exactly.
We will just put Trump porn on the whitehouse.gov site to show you how little control America has over its digital economy.
Hey deepseek. Remake Lemon Party but with Trump, Vance, and Elon.
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 a single proposal but maybe anybody with an extra terabyte sitting around might want to hold on to a copy
I already have every version downloaded on my nas, more cause I hate redownloading things and am a pack rat.
Same
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
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?
the law isn't meant to bar you from downloading it. it's meant to prevent use in a business setting
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