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JOMusic@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek

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US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek

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Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
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According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.
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    now i gotta download something i don’t even wanna download.

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      Yup. Downloaded 7b, 32b, and 70b varieties this afternoon. Entirely out of spite.

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        Since those smaller models are technically fine-tunes of Meta/Facebook’s LLAMA, using Deepseek’s outputs, I wonder if they would be covered by the bill at all.

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          7b and 32b are Qwen2 🙃

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      I literally just did the same

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