Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
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.
The United States of America is really trying to lose its mind over AI.
This guy heard people talking about China being more repressive than the US and took it as a challenge.
Downloading now even though I wasn’t before.
@sabreW4K3 I had no plans to download it, but I sure as fuck will now.
This legislation was written to protect American tech bros, pure and simple. OpenAI is screaming about how DeepSeek stole their data, and how China-made AI is a huge security risk. Of course, OpenAI stole the data from us first, and it's not actually a security risk if you download the model and run it locally on your own hardware, offline. They're just throwing a fit to protect their massive profits.
But what they fail to understand is: you can't un-foot the lettuce.
DeepSeek has been on Hugging Face and GitHub for a while now. Plenty of time for independent AI model makers to download the whole dataset, intermingle it with other datasets, and create a hybrid that won't give you bullshit answers when you ask it about Taiwan or Tiananmen Square. Technically, no longer an AI model developed in China, and just as problematic for OpenAI.
The community will continue to make iterations of this new toy as well, so the next DeepSeek could easily come from Canada, Poland, Korea, India... you get the idea. Hawley's going to be busy, trying to ban the whole world. Which, in fairness, does seem to be the greater MAGA foreign policy strategy right now.
The point is, bad legislation won't fix the fact that OpenAI needs to re-think their strategy. We already know that you don't need to build Skynet to create ChatGPT v6, and they've been bullshitting us for a while now.
Good luck enforcing it 😂
I hope no finds out how easy it is to download software like lmstudio and 1click install DeepSeek-R1 or hundreds of other models to test at home on desktop hardware. It would be a terrible, possibly criminal, bit of information.
I was gonna look the state up and tell them to come get their dude but it's Missouri. Outside of St Louis in Kansas City that place is a piece of shit. And so are the people. And I get to say that cuz I grew up there and got out.