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US senator introduces bill that could criminalize downloading DeepSeek AI

www.tradingview.com US senator introduces bill that could criminalize downloading DeepSeek AI

US Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican from Missouri, introduced legislation to prohibit the import and export of artificial intelligence technology to and from China, citing national security concerns.The bill, titled the Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act, does…

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Bill Gates rn: wait you can just get the government to ban an open source competitor to your software??!
- All you need to do is claim it's a threat to national security

“In the bad country, they put you in jail just for using other country’s probability algorithm.”

You wouldn't download an LLM
- A succulent Chinese LLM?

Boomers who don't understand anything try to pass bill that can't be enforced in any way. More at 11
This is as stupid was the supposed law that China is putting people in jail for using VPN.

US senators don’t know how anything works.
On June 28th, 2006, former Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens told the world, "The Internet is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-remembrance-and-defense-of-ted-stevens-series-of-tubes
I bet OpenAI wrote the bill he is proposing.
- When your understanding of the world comes from a 10 year old Tim & Eric bit

You can take my illegal tensors from my cold dead flash storage

I resent LLMs and don't use them in my daily life at all, but I pulled deepseek r1 from ollama yesterday just out of spite.
- That's exactly how I ended up on TikTok.

This is what a free market looks like
- free as in markets

But its ok to keep the Temu and Shein apps folks.
Old folk and technology

AI is good unless it's foreign AI. Lol it's pathetic.
If I was one of the developers of DeepSeek, I'd be laughing so hard right now. Wiping out a trillion dollars and making a bunch of evil politicians lose their shit.
- Well considering Deepseek is 10x cheaper to run, this would hurt the profit margins of all the drilling we are going to do. We need power hungry useless technology that we can run with all of our beautiful fossil fuels.

Why are they so petty.

Gerentocratic states of America really showing their expertise.

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