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Open source or not makes no different. It can run in China or Russia, or vietnam or any other nation that doesn’t ban it because it understands the economic power and you pay them on Fiver.

It’s already true for almost anything. You need a deepfake, you can get it for a dollar on a VN web forum. Banning it won’t change a thing. Software piracy is “banned”. Sharing mp3s is “banned”. It makes no difference.

The Fake News and Misinformation on Facebook to influence the US election was legal - AI or not.

To make it illegal you’d need to change the very power consensus of the US, so it won’t happen. People understand that well enough to instead scream at Technology because with that they retain an illusion that it can save them.

The only way to enforce it would be to force everyone to give up general purpose compute and submit to constant client scanning.

If you are afraid enough of AI to not see how that’s a bad idea, you’re ripe for a fascist takeover.

Imagine you lived through the adaptation of gunpowder. That’s where we are. And if you live in the US and see the failure to even ban guns which are physical - how can you have illusions about AI




It seems like you agree with me then?


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