US Senator introduces legislation which would make it illegal to download AI models from China, with penalties of up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both
US Senator introduces legislation which would make it illegal to download AI models from China, with penalties of up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both

Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek

Jesus christ they are drawing borders on fucking downloads. What a world.
How else are they going to milk their talentless techbro cash cows? Can't have China popping that imaginary wealth bubble now can we. /s
Unfortunately nothing new on that front. We've had geofencing for years.