Comment by asadotzler
10 days ago
How does this account for the Chinese models that are the ones people will use if they can't use OAI's or Anthropic's. Last time I checked, the US president doesn't have the ability to regulate the Chinese models. Considering this, do you still stand by your maybe?
I really don't think this administration is capable of thinking strategically enough for that. I'm starting to think we lost the AI war about two weeks ago at 5:21.
Maybe they are looking into those too and a ban might be on the horizon. President makes their own rules now and controls the supreme court, you can't consider precedent anymore.
Most of them are open weight, ban them how? An executive order can only prohibit their use within/for the federal government, that's it.
The administration may try, and the bigger more risk adverse companies will capitulate willingly, but its about as ineffective of a ban as you can get. It'd be like trying to ban running Linux on your home computer because it "might be able be used to conduct cyberattacks"
I wouldn't be surprised if linux is banned in the next couple decades. They might make it where all new hardware sold can only run some validated set of OSs. They might try and hunt for unregistered compute leaking its ip on the internet and target it in some way.