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Re: Protect your right to run local AI

#121
post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those people seem to have installed multiple outdoor units, there are limited numbers you are allowed to do without getting planning permission (two for detached housing, one for semi, nothing by default for flats) because these things have impacts on those nearby. The telegraph is an awful rag, and should be read assuming the facts are probably true as written but interpreted in an incredibly biased way.

So you are only allowed to use goverment approved models for local LLM, of reasonable size (lets say 8GB vram). And gov can inspect your local data any time. But that is not a ban on local LLMs!

That’s wildly different, and if you want to invent things and then get mad at them you can, but the rules on ac are because the outside part has an impact on your neighbours.

Re: Protect your right to run local AI

#122
This is useless because AI has nothing to do with intelligence. It's just software.

You cannot ban local AI without banning local software which is obviously impossible.

Possession of software, even software that can be used for illegal purpose such as RATs and other viruses isn't illegal.

Re: Protect your right to run local AI

#123

In the US at least, repealing a law takes the same number of votes as passing a new one. I don't follow the purpose of this, unless it's to pass a constitutional amendment or something. Or maybe just to get clicks on a website. And I already have the right to local intelligence, because my GPUs are my private property, and if someone freely releases a beerware model then I can freely download it. What am I missing?

How long do you think your hardware will last?

Re: Protect your right to run local AI

#124

This is useless because AI has nothing to do with intelligence. It's just software. You cannot ban local AI without banning local software which is obviously impossible. Possession of software, even software that can be used for illegal purpose such as RATs and other viruses isn't illegal.

RATs do not require a datacenter to develop.

Re: Protect your right to run local AI

#125

Pardon me, so they'll hunt down huggingface, ollama and china? I don't quite understand? What about the millenia of companies that provide apis for local llms and private companies that use local llms for privacy reasons? I don't even understand how you'd execute such a ruleset.

I mean if you go into old AI safety discussion from before LLMs you'll see they don't do that. They go after new hardware. That's way easier than going after software. Hardware doesn't last forever and manufacturers will gladly cripple their cards and license powerful ones to businesses.

Re: Protect your right to run local AI

#126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dario and friends are fear mongering local models to get them banned.

“are”? Source? I've seen an absolute flood of “BREAKING:” claims online recently which are quotes from 3 years ago where all of their context is removed, or that quotes from 3 years ago are “because of GLM 5.2”, etc. https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-senate-hearing-on-pr...

Yes that clip [4] is making the rounds again in light of Mythos, but his stance (and that of others) hasn't changed ([3] is from a new interview).

[1] https://memeburn.com/amodei-says-open-source-ai-is-becoming-... [2 July 2026]

[2] https://fortune.com/2026/07/02/anthropic-fable-and-mythos-ar... [July 2, 2026]

[3] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/S72ZRBSNHZc [2 weeks ago] -- Dario: "Now what I do worry about with some of these laggard models is the risks of them, where we have Mythos-class cyber capabilities, 12 months from now we'll have much better cyber capabilities. But the Mythos-class cyber capabilities may just be available for anyone to download."

[4] https://digg.com/tech/zx1bqifo

Re: Protect your right to run local AI

#129

Laws restricting the use of local AI/LLMs are not going to happen, no matter how much Anthropic might want it. All the major OEMs are now counting on local LLMs to take off. Just look at the OEM support for the upcoming Nvidia RTX Spark platform: Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, MSI. All the big names in the industry will have, by the end of this year, Nvidia-powered machines made specifically for local LLM use.

There’s a combined $3T+ of capital which is at least in some position to benefit from local AI ban. Don’t underestimate this

Re: Protect your right to run local AI

#130

Eh, let em. If the US economy wants to self-sabotage, let them. Its a dying empire, lets its fall be hastened. I'm ready for china to fill the US vacuum. At least china controls it's billionairs (see jack ma saga) rather than the inverse.

This feels short-sighted unless you are ethnically han?

Do you feel that the US treats all ethnicities equally at the moment?
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