Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
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According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.
  • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Download the model and run locally is the most secure and privacy friendly way to use it.

    It’s absurd how little they know about what they are doing.

  • anticurrent@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 days ago

    The USA is in panic mode, they thought they could undermine China’s development just like they did with ball-sucking Europe, now there is a need for other nation to come up with their own models, and show the US they should stop underpinning monopolies.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Wow, bold choice to ban the import of technology and knowledge. Usually governments are worried about export, so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

    Btw, how is the Nvidia stock price doing?

    • forrgott@lemm.eeEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Right? Like, seriously, we all know somebody is just butthurt because their stock options tanked.

      Oh, wait, I’m sorry! That was very unpatriotic of me, wasn’t it? I mean, we all know that winning an election guarantees being heavily rewarded with insider trading, right? It’s not like they’re there to represent constituents or anything; I mean, doesn’t everyone know we’re a republic, not a democracy?!

      Sigh…

  • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    This is astounding.

    I mean, not the Deepseek or jailing stuff. I mean a Senator actually proposing a law. I thought the way our government worked was, the annoying orange declares a vague uncited threat to be bad, and signs an executive order on it!

  • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Its open source lol. Why don’t the tech billionaires innovate? Instead they just ban competitors

  • blady_blah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    That’s awesome! I didn’t know you could download an LLM and run it locally! That’s what I’m really interested in is something that’s on my side and not a conduit to Google, MS or other.

    I’m so glad Hawley proposed this bill or I wouldn’t have known that deepseek was open source and downloadable! I’ll have to go look for a download.

  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Hawley’s statement called DeepSeek “a data-harvesting, low-cost AI model that sparked international concern and sent American technology stocks plummeting.”

    data-harvesting

    ???

    It runs offline… using open-source software that provably does not collect or transmit any data…

    It is low-cost and out-competes American technology, though, true