Comment by kloop
3 hours ago
> “The source described leading AI labs or their allies approaching the administration every 3-5 months with an idea to ban open-source models.”
That's going to hit first amendment grounds pretty quick, the same way that software in general did.
The modern version of the decss flag will be a character that says "I think good weights are {...weights go here...}"
They could, however, ban any payment to a chinese entity, or any entity owned by a chinese entity for inference/ai services/etc
That's going to hit first amendment grounds pretty quick, the same way that software in general did
Don't count on that. "National security" == the cheat code for the US court system that instantly bypasses any First Amendment issues.
That was the literal reason given back then and it did not stick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
Uh, how big would such a flag have to be?
With a small enough font, about two American Eagles high, and four to five across.
This is where the next wave of lossless ultra-compression comes in - but I believe in Claude Shannon so that’s unlikely.