Might is irrelevant and doesn't prevent any abuse, nor does it foster innovative environment. Both the EU and the US, need to pick a side. Either they should make it illegal and establish precedent, or just let go.
Creation of new laws, and enforcement of existing laws usually trails behind the bleeding edge of tech. It's part of the risk tech companies accept when they're doing something new which might possibly be a bit dodgy.
Expecting companies to actually license copyrighted material instead of mass infringement is fairly reasonable given they've demanded the same for decades from the populace.
"China's not going to respect those laws" is kinda beside the point. If they suddenly decided to cut everyone in the nation's pay in half - or double it - that would have no bearing on what is right for you or I to do.
This is also why we won't get a Big Tech crackdown any time soon of any significance; and would not have even under the previous administration.
Big Tech is the US' golden goose in the race against China. Deepseek shows China is at the doorstep, much closer and more capable than previously assumed. Any thoughts politically about how we can simultaneously crack down on Big Tech, while keeping China in check with sanctions, just went out the window.
There are other things about the AI industry that don't foster an "innovative environment":
- companies being allowed to spin fairy tales about their products' capabilities
- no real consequences to enabling scammers, copyright thieves, and misinformation factories
That stuff might be good for securing short-term investment - and it befits a society obsessed with cryptocurrency and sports gambling. But it doesn't seem good for building meaningfully smarter computers, just dumber computer users.
BoredPositron|1 year ago
lupusreal|1 year ago
philipov|1 year ago
GaggiX|1 year ago
At that point we just wait for the next Chinese open source model.
anonymousab|1 year ago
"China's not going to respect those laws" is kinda beside the point. If they suddenly decided to cut everyone in the nation's pay in half - or double it - that would have no bearing on what is right for you or I to do.
gjsman-1000|1 year ago
Big Tech is the US' golden goose in the race against China. Deepseek shows China is at the doorstep, much closer and more capable than previously assumed. Any thoughts politically about how we can simultaneously crack down on Big Tech, while keeping China in check with sanctions, just went out the window.
aithrowawaycomm|1 year ago
- companies being allowed to spin fairy tales about their products' capabilities
- no real consequences to enabling scammers, copyright thieves, and misinformation factories
That stuff might be good for securing short-term investment - and it befits a society obsessed with cryptocurrency and sports gambling. But it doesn't seem good for building meaningfully smarter computers, just dumber computer users.