US bill is about to ban DeepSeek, 20-Year imprisonment for downloading it
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Re: US bill is about to ban DeepSeek, 20-Year imprisonment for downloading it
#2If you can't compete, ban.
Re: US bill is about to ban DeepSeek, 20-Year imprisonment for downloading it
#3No text yet, but you can view the status here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/321...
In the comments of the post, homie points at this for the text: https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Haw...
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Haven't read it yet, will come back with an opinion after I see what all the fuss is about.
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Edit: Read the bill. Pretty short.
Reminds me of the fight against cryptographic systems. Kinda hilarious imo.
IANAL
Re: US bill is about to ban DeepSeek, 20-Year imprisonment for downloading it
#4Given that it’s coming from Josh Hawley, it’s entirely likely it was written by DeepSeek.
Re: US bill is about to ban DeepSeek, 20-Year imprisonment for downloading it
#5BRB, going to jail because I accepted a PR bugfix to my "AI" project from an e-mail domain that was actually someone in China.
Look, there's no love lost between me and the PRC, I used to live in Hong Kong... but this here is a bad-faith bill from a bad legislator, Josh Hawley. Among other things, I remember he was encouraging the January 6th attackers before scampering away in a panic when they actually smashed into the building.
Meta-comment: Please, don't link to Twitter unless the first chunk is everything people need to see. All others are locked away unless you register.
Re: US bill is about to ban DeepSeek, 20-Year imprisonment for downloading it
#6It’s an idiotic bill but it will never make it to a vote. There would be disastrous economic consequences. China doesn’t even have a similar law for American open source models.