I've set up private servers for nieces, nephews, friends' kids, etc. so they can play Minecraft together safely. If private servers were illegal they'd be forced to play with whoever on public servers. Seems like the exact opposite of protecting kids
Dawg on IG they asked straight men what’s the gayest thing they’ve done and a dude said he raised his hand in the club when the DJ asked who got a birthday tonight lmaooooo
These companies have an incentive to say that RAM prices will stay high for the foreseeable future.
If they said RAM would fall within the next 1-2 years, people would delay buying computers which would hurt their sales.
The truth is that nobody knows when RAM prices will fall, but late 2027/2028 is a reasonable timeframe according to some analysts.
So many comments say an open-source AI ban wouldn’t be enforceable. That is wrong, but also completely misses the point.
1. Choke points. No one is going to lock you up for running Gemma 4 32B on your MacBook. But you’re not doing anything useful with those models anyway. Useful models require at least $50k in hardware to run. Most private individuals aren’t in the market for that. All the government needs to do is ban serving AI models to the public. Businesses are law-abiding. They will comply, despite not wanting to.
2. The labs. Chinese labs are the ones publishing all the open-source models — open weight, but that is a meaningless distinction for this topic. As soon as they are properly in the lead, this will stop. No one is going to pay billions of dollars to train frontier models and then turn around and give them away. They do that right now because it’s the only way to be competitive from behind. US companies aren’t going to run inference on Chinese platforms, so they give the models away. This keeps them relevant, caps the profit of US labs, builds a data pipeline for the inference they do get on their platforms, and gives them the users, market feedback, and infrastructure to compete. But when they are properly in the lead, I expect open models to come only from whoever is really losing at the time.
3. “They can’t ban files.” Another very common take that is very incorrect. There are a *lot* of “files” that are banned. Just think about it for two seconds. I’m sure you can come up with 10 examples, none of which I’ll mention here for obvious reasons.
4. Chilling effect. People and businesses are already scared of AI. You don’t need to entirely eradicate open source to virtually eliminate its effectiveness and halt its progress. You just need to “chill” it. Making moves to restrict large open-source models would do exactly that.
5. Dark data centers. Right now, data centers are being built as fast as possible, in large part to host open-source models. Imagine the effects of immediately, artificially truncating demand for that product. It would devastate the economy.
So, no, would a ban on open-source models prevent people from running some dinky little thing on their MacBook or a GPU? No. Do you think that’s what this is about? Don’t be a fool and think your 64GB of memory gives you AI freedom. It doesn’t.
A ban would crush the industry, crush the economy, and permanently damage this nascent industry.
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
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