The US is a fucking joke. Completely captured by corporate greed. It’s not a democracy and hasn’t been for a long time.
GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica
Submitted 2 months ago by lebkuchen@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/gop-sneaks-decade-long-ai-regulation-ban-into-spending-bill/
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MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TheTurner@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Plutocracy!
May the highest bidder win.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d say it’s more of a kakistocracy right now.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
We know! You don’t have to rub it in…😞
Mjpasta710@midwest.social 2 months ago
Please rub it in, until we go away or improve.
It might change some folks unchecked insanity.
At the very least we could stop letting senile, narcissistic, psychopath children decide everything.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Land votes and some people were constituionally sub human…when was is democratic?
As always they were just polished turds.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Never was.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
sTaTeS rIgHtS!
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
No Republican has ever given two shits about state rights, personal rights or even human rights in general. They never stop screeching about it but they don’t give a shit.
They only care about their own pockets, the end.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Unless it’s a blue state!
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 months ago
Bundling issues together like this should not be allowed. It’s done by everyone, and usually done to hold the actual good parts hostage. Oh you want to prevent asbestos from being used because it’s killing people? Well the only way you get that is by also allowing employers to hire 4 year olds.
bpev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tbf, I don’t know how feasible it is to remove asbestos without employing 4 year olds.
brot@feddit.org 2 months ago
Yeah, and sneaking in such a thing at the last minute is also antidemocratic.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 month ago
Not really not-democratic, just shitty.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 months ago
"automated decision systems "
“IF X THEN Y” satisfies this description.
Soooo basically just take the handbrake off practically every chunk of software ever written then?
fxdave@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
When the marketing went too far that it brought AI the wrong meaning.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To be clear, the bill prevents regulation. It’s not a regulatory ban, it is a ban on regulation.
Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thank you
mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 months ago
Could we just....call everything AI then and it cant be regulated. Cause that would be hilarious.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Someone needs to spin up an AI that continuously generates pictures that annoy Donald Trump and posts them to all social media, it should actively learn what makes him and his supporters feel the saddest and optimise for those attributes.
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s funny but sad. Vague, selectively-enforcable laws are the point.
We can’t just call something AI to prevent regulation.
They can, though. With “laws” like this, the government can freely pick and choose who is punished and who is protected.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Did chatgpt propose this?
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
one small win for local AI, one giant loss for the school system (and others).
KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Huge loss for the environment, big win for AI stocks!
4am@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Deepseek biding their time
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Exactly… “Deepseek is a threat against our freedoms!!” also “No one can make any laws to put any restrictions on any AI models”. Cool.
meeeeetch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fine, I won’t complain when Yudkowski’s followers take matters into their own hands.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Son of a bitch!
oakward@feddit.org 2 months ago
This is going to kill the content creation industry. Imagine a torrent client that has a built in neural network training module. You are now allowed to access any IP protected content and inspect it on your home TV for dataset building. What the neural network does is irrelevant, it can have a couple of layers and be trained with a residual amount of the CPU load. Happy torrenting :)
toastmeister@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If you want to stay on the bleeding edge you’ve got to be a reversal of Europe, which means allowing innovation and competition. Hence why VT is nearly 70% US.
Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You sure this isn’t a poison pill?
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What I can’t get around with is people expecting AI that was developed by not respect IP rights to suddenly begin respecting their presumed IP rights (not that most are not just accepting them away through the associated EULAs) with what they generate using them.
futatorius@lemm.ee 2 months ago
A “decade-long” ban can be rescinded by any future Congress that has the votes.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Someones taking money for this.
fluxion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We didn’t just not do what all those movies/books warned us to, we made it illegal to take any precautions whatsoever.
Such a stupid fucking timeline.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The bill that makes it illegal for precautions is snuck inside megabill with 100 other bad provisions so no debate occurs on it.
FYI, the US empire is evil. Like media, AI must be used to protect the Empire’s evil.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
If only they protected my rights like they protect the rights of corporations.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Won’t any think of the shareholders? They suffer too. -s
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That would be extremely out of character for the GOP, why would you even expect that from them?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Whatever happened to states rights?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They ditched that as soon as they won the election
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fascists only use “rights” for themselves, and then they will rub it into your face that they can do something you can’t…
Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does this not directly, nakedly violate the sovereignty clause?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Welp, pack it up kids, this one’s cooked
sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 2 months ago
Why would they need money? Automating systems removes interpersonal trust and facilitates 1984-esque media and data control. Deregulation means they can use it as a handwavy excuse for a lot of major things, and also impact the information those systems give you.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 months ago
I believe at this level it’s called favors.