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How seriously threatening is this? How can they enforce something this stupid without even consulting with industry leaders?



Oh they have. Many of the industry leaders are importuning them for this. For industry leaders this is a business wet dream. It's "regulatory capture" at its finest


OpenAI has lobbied them among others, already. Our elected officials accept written law from lobbyists. Money and power games don't look out for common folks except incidentally or to the extent commoners mobilize against them.


I honestly can't blame OpenAI. They likely threw a huge amount of money at training and fine-tuning their models. I don't know how open-source will surpass them and not stay a second-tier solution without another huge generous event occurring like Facebook open-sourcing LLaMa


It seems like we need a distributed training network where people can donate GPU time, but then any training result is automatically open.


Great idea!


The only thing this directs is... consulting with a variety of groups, including industry, and writing a report based in that consultation.

So, literally, they can’t enforce it without consulting with industry, since enforcement is just sonewhat in the government holding someone else in government accountable for consulting with, among others, the industry.




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