California Senate bill to crush OpenAI competitors fast tracked for a vote

Anybody got any additional context on this? The headline / tiny screenshot really leaves a lot to be desired. What is the bill? what does it do? how does this benefit OpenAI? Does it also benefit other "big players" (Meta, xAI, etc)?

Re: California Senate bill to crush OpenAI competitors fast tracked for a vote

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Post by greenavocado » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 5:54 PM UTC

What the hell?

It establishes the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act to regulate the development and use of advanced AI models, termed "covered models." So now LLMs will be subject to the whims of an unelected governing body and you will comply under threat of vague penalties?

Requires entities operating computing clusters to assess if customers intend to use resources to deploy covered models and maintain related records. If your judgement is wrong you are fined and go to jail?

If a model does not qualify for exemption, developers must implement cybersecurity protections, shutdown capabilities, safety protocols, and capability testing. Annual compliance certification to the Frontier Model Division is required. GTFO.

Developers must report AI safety incidents to the Frontier Model Division within 72 hours of occurrence. Oof.

Creates the Frontier Model Division within the Department of Technology to oversee compliance, issue guidance, review safety reports, and advise the Attorney General and Legislature on AI matters. Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

Requires entities operating computing clusters to assess if customers intend to use resources to deploy covered models and maintain related records. There goes our freedom of association.

Allows the Attorney General to bring civil actions for violations, with potential penalties including injunctions, damages, and fines up to 30% of model development cost. Just lovely.

Directs the Department of Technology to commission consultants to create CalCompute, a public cloud computing cluster for AI research and innovation. Good luck with that!

LLM model development will be buried by red tape in California.

Re: California Senate bill to crush OpenAI competitors fast tracked for a vote

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Post by ryandrake » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 5:56 PM UTC

slg wrote: post #4

And here is the response thread from the state senator that introduced it. https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1784964914236227757 Has anyone with less of a bias actually analyzed this bill because I'm not sure if I trust either of these guys after reading these two threads?

Is there an easy way to actually read the whole thread? All I see as a non-user of X/Twitter is a post alluding to a response, but without any follow-up:

> However, this thread contains some extreme inaccuracies — indeed outright fear-mongering — about our AI safety legislation (SB 1047) that need to be corrected:

[then nothing]

Re: California Senate bill to crush OpenAI competitors fast tracked for a vote

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Post by colpabar » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 5:57 PM UTC

itslennysfault wrote: post #5

Anybody got any additional context on this? The headline / tiny screenshot really leaves a lot to be desired. What is the bill? what does it do? how does this benefit OpenAI? Does it also benefit other "big players" (Meta, xAI, etc)?

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Re: California Senate bill to crush OpenAI competitors fast tracked for a vote

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Post by red_trumpet » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 5:58 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #7

slg wrote: post #4

And here is the response thread from the state senator that introduced it. https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1784964914236227757 Has anyone with less of a bias actually analyzed this bill because I'm not sure if I trust either of these guys after reading these two threads?

Is there an easy way to actually read the whole thread? All I see as a non-user of X/Twitter is a post alluding to a response, but without any follow-up: > However, this thread contains some extreme inaccuracies — indeed outright fear-mongering — about our AI safety legislation (SB 1047) that need to be corrected: [then nothing]

https://twitter-thread.com/t/1784663936513524074

Re: California Senate bill to crush OpenAI competitors fast tracked for a vote

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Post by greenavocado » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 5:59 PM UTC

colpabar wrote: post #8

itslennysfault wrote: post #5

Anybody got any additional context on this? The headline / tiny screenshot really leaves a lot to be desired. What is the bill? what does it do? how does this benefit OpenAI? Does it also benefit other "big players" (Meta, xAI, etc)?

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"The experts are handling it" is a term for a totalitarian authoritarianism not a democracy.