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.
    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      You need to think in Republican. Corporations are people up to the moment they commit a crime, at which point they are not people.

  • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months 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.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    And they wonder why China is eating the US’s lunch on the world stage in terms of influence and technology.

  • Cantaloupe877@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’d get LM studio or Ollama, and download R1 your system can handle quick. If you’re on Linux, Alpaca is on Flathub, you can get it and it’ll download models and run them for you, including Deepseek R1.

  • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Sooner or later we’re gonna have to bypass the Great Firewall of America by VPNing into China

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

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

    Btw, how is the Nvidia stock price doing?

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      To be fair, this is common practice. Countries do this all the time to protect their economies. Mostly known in the West is China which banned many US services.

      Of course, security of the data of the citizens is also a factor. You don’t want foreign countries use this data to interfere in any way.

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Honestly, I don’t think this is common practice in non-oppressive countries. I mean sure, this happens in North Korea, Iran, China… But I’m relatively free to consume what I want with a few minor exceptions. For example we don’t import food that isn’t food-safe by our standards. Regardless if it’s common practice to eat it in other places. Also food may not be able to enter the country due to laws on animal cruelty. Similar things apply to electronic devices that aren’t up to code. And some select few things are banned altogether and you can’t have them and neither can someone import them. Other than that, regulations aren’t super strict. I can use all American social media platforms despite them stealing my personal data and violating European privacy laws regularly, can use Russian or Chinese websites… I think I live in a free country.

        Helping domestic economy is done with tariffs / import tax. And not by banning things and putting people in jail.

        And mind that this isn’t about the service that collects your data and gives it to the Chinese government. This is about downloading the model file and using it all by yourself. So no data gets transferred to a foreign country. And it’s not because people could get harmed or anything. This is just because the vice president doesn’t want it personally. Like in some dictatorship. Otherwise they would have banned transferring data into foreign countries, if that’s what it’s about. But they didn’t do that, because it’s not about protecting the people.

        Or did I miss something and there are other examples for limitations on import?

    • forrgott@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months 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…