Comment by parasense
2 years ago
I used to work on AI.
Now I work on Artificial Stupidity...
Jokes aside, this is ludicrous. The president cannot enforce this regulation over open source projects, because code is free speech going back to the 1990s ATT v BSD case law, and many other cases the establish how source code is an artistic form of expression, thus protected speech.
The president has no authority to regulate speech, so they can pretty much fuck off.
What is the penalty for non-compliance? "Nullum crimen sine lege" is a pretty fundamental part of the law; and Congress has not passed any laws that would give the President the authority to do these things.
> What is the penalty for non-compliance?
An executive order is direction from the President to executive branch agencies. Penalties for other people for violating regulations, etc., drafted under an EO will depend on the EO; except for consequences for insubordination within the executive branch, there generally aren't penalties for violating an EO itself.
> "Nullum crimen sine lege" is a pretty fundamental part of the law; and Congress has not passed any laws that would give the President the authority to do these things.
While the actual text of the order (which, usually for executive orders, would included very specific references to authority) doesn't appear to be published, some authorities, including the Defense Production Act, for the order are cited in the fact sheet.
Like we haven't had rights and freedom taken away consistently over the past two decades in the name of safety, whatever that is. What you mention will be irrelevant after some new law that says open source AI code should be regulated too and everyone is forced to comply.
Explain that to the tornado cash guys
Tornado Cash guys had poor opsec. Pretty obvious that if you are dumb enough the feds will get you.
If code is free speech it wouldn’t matter whether they had good OpSec or not is what I’m saying
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> The president cannot enforce this regulation over open source projects.
I imagine the president can make things difficult, like with Pretty Good Privacy - which was exported in book-form?