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 1 month 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 1 month ago
TheTurner@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Plutocracy!
May the highest bidder win.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’d say it’s more of a kakistocracy right now.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
We know! You don’t have to rub it in…😞
Mjpasta710@midwest.social 1 month 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 1 month ago
Land votes and some people were constituionally sub human…when was is democratic?
As always they were just polished turds.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Never was.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
sTaTeS rIgHtS!
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
Unless it’s a blue state!
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 month 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 1 month ago
tbf, I don’t know how feasible it is to remove asbestos without employing 4 year olds.
brot@feddit.org 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
When the marketing went too far that it brought AI the wrong meaning.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
To be clear, the bill prevents regulation. It’s not a regulatory ban, it is a ban on regulation.
Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thank you
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 month ago
Could we just....call everything AI then and it cant be regulated. Cause that would be hilarious.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Did chatgpt propose this?
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
one small win for local AI, one giant loss for the school system (and others).
KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Huge loss for the environment, big win for AI stocks!
4am@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Deepseek biding their time
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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 1 month ago
Fine, I won’t complain when Yudkowski’s followers take matters into their own hands.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Son of a bitch!
oakward@feddit.org 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
You sure this isn’t a poison pill?
TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 1 month 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 1 month ago
A “decade-long” ban can be rescinded by any future Congress that has the votes.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Someones taking money for this.
fluxion@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
If only they protected my rights like they protect the rights of corporations.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Won’t any think of the shareholders? They suffer too. -s
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That would be extremely out of character for the GOP, why would you even expect that from them?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Whatever happened to states rights?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They ditched that as soon as they won the election
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Does this not directly, nakedly violate the sovereignty clause?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Welp, pack it up kids, this one’s cooked
sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 1 month 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 1 month ago
I believe at this level it’s called favors.