Technology

The Land of the free sure likes taking away freedoms and banning stuff

That doesn't sound like a free market to me.

China : Discovers Anti-gravity
USA : Law preventing study of anti-gravity

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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

Capitalism truly thrives on competition and innovation

US is getting very desperate

They are afraid. Very afraid. Good.

I thought software and thus code was protected as free speech?

Time to start seeding DeepSeek R1 I guess.

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

Ah yes, the "free market" in action.

We are rotten to the core.

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)

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.

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

One word: pathetic.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

Lol, protectionism for the administration's fellators.

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.

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.

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

uh... no.

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

The investors will love that.

Had to lookup the penalties since this document just pointed somewhere else:

(a) In General.--Section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) is amended to read as follows:

SEC. 206. PENALTIES.

• (a) Unlawful Acts.--It shall be unlawful for a person to violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any license, order, regulation, or prohibition issued under this title.
• (b) Civil Penalty.--A civil penalty may be imposed on any person who commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) in an amount not to exceed the greater of--
  • (1) $250,000; or
  • (2) an amount that is twice the amount of the transaction that is the basis of the violation with respect to which the penalty is imposed.
• (c) Criminal Penalty.--A person who willfully commits, willfully attempts to commit, or willfully conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.''.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-110publ96/html/PLAW-110publ96.htm

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.

What next? Outlaw chinese food?

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

Josh Hawley is a complete waste.

BuT tHe FrEe mArKeT

This country is so cooked.

Torrenting is going to be wild in 2025.