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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

People like this should not be a government representative. But I guess that's the trend lately

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I wasn't thinking of downloading an AI onto my low tier computer until now.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I've got a laptop kicking around from 2010 that's about to get deepseek just because they're proposing this dumb ass shit. I don't even use Gen AI.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Good to see some socialist policy's making their way to the US..

Oh wait...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Print the code in a book and mail it.

Surely, they cannot ban books... right? Right?

Edit: Wait wait wait... the Comstock Act says mail cannot be used for anything that can be used for abortion. And a AI can theoretically be used to get instructions for abortion. BOOM, it's banned! 👀

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So I guess it's free speech as long as you agree with the goverment's speech. If not, then it's a crime.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

free speech is when racial slurs obviously

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Elon Musk was just posting a factory of prisoners all working for cents on the dollar saying that America needs more of that.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Your tax dollars at work!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that requires open-ai to be jailed

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's only a proposed bill (thankfully), but definitely one to keep an eye on.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Eh, it's just virtue signaling nonsense. It's not going anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

that's what they said about vaguely gestures at everything

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's what everyone thought about Trump becoming president... Both times.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

More protectionist bullshit that won't help anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like they haven't got better things to do if they're drafting these kinds of bills

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Wasn't that interested before but it does give it a certain allure now to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Made the switch to DeepSeek fo’ life.

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