US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek
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#2Guess what I, a person who mere minutes ago had little interest in downloading DeepSeek, am doing right now? Paging Ms. Streisand…
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#3> The Republican Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley has introduced a new bill that would make it illegal to import or export artificial intelligence products to and from China, meaning someone who knowingly downloads a Chinese developed AI model like the now immensely popular DeepSeek could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both, should such a law pass.
You get less jail time for committing 34 felonies.
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#4you need this :
Re: US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek
#5If the rationale is to avoid sending data back to Chinese servers, then shouldn't there be a carveout for downloading a model you run locally?
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#6It is useful context for people who aren't American to know how ridiculous Josh Hawley is, and has always been. The current authoritarian chaos could lend some weight to the possibility that this becomes law, but it is still unlikely.
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#7On the one hand Hawley proposes a lot of things that don't ever get close to becoming law.
On the other hand, we did ban TikTok (which is currently unavailable on the app stores because of the ban).
I can think of few ways to more effectively destroy any US advantage in AI compared with the sheer efficiency of making it illegal to learn from what competing countries have achieved. From the article, it sounds like the proposed legislation is deeply confused about what "downloading DeepSeek" means--they're _talking_ about banning the app, while _writing_ laws to ban "the importation into the United States of artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual proprietary developed or produced in the People’s Republic of China" which is a lot broader. Is it proposing to ban US citizens from reading research papers written by Chinese citizens? Or from publishing research in places that might be read by them? Apparently the EFF is concerned that the language of the bill is, indeed, that broad.
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#8And here I was thinking North Korea was the one with extreme laws on imports.
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#9I remember this being mentioned as the next step in the previous thread haha. It's getting old and they need to find a new slant (ode to Bryan Colangelo).
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#10dear god this is idiotic. please no.