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US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek


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in reply to JOMusic

"American Liberty", ladies and gentleman.
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in reply to JOMusic

As well as banning research. Absurd overreach of government and it will accomplish the opposite of what it wants.
in reply to morrowind

It’s definitely not because it’s a competitor to Grok (x.ai) who just spend $6 billon on GPUs or anything
in reply to JOMusic

It's only a proposed bill (thankfully), but definitely one to keep an eye on.
in reply to thingsiplay

Yes in this context it means "pathetic". For people who were thinking I mean the other meaning of joke.
in reply to JOMusic

another great day of not being an american
in reply to kekmacska

The whole globe is sliding right. It's not a great day for anyone.
in reply to Telorand

true but they will not stop me. even if i was american, i'd download deepseek, idc about anything at this point
in reply to Telorand

Sliding right and left. It's becoming more polarized as Empire decays.
in reply to JOMusic

if i was american i'd download it rn
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morrowind
Of the US's own capabilities?
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Telorand
TBH, I think that's giving too much credit to those in charge. They don't want to be China's or Russia's puppet. They imagine themselves the puppeteers (whether that's true or not).
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BrainInABox
Americans try not to scapegoat foreigners for their own domestic problems challenge (impossible).
in reply to JOMusic

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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BrainInABox
I'm not the one making up jingoist conspiracy theories to avoid having to confront the real problems
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davel
Just keep believing increasingly unhinged BlueAnon conspiracy theories. The US is just a smol bean fragile liberal democracy being mind controlled by the bad, mean, no good authoritarian foreign masterminds. Previously.
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That's right, be sure to check for communists under your bed everyone!
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The conspiracy theory debunkers are the *real conspiracy theorists!*
in reply to JOMusic

Good thing I've just accepted a faculty position outside the US.

I'll get to move to a country that doesn't persecute academics and I think I'm just beating the crowds on the way out.

in reply to azimir

Nice to see the brain drain of the US in action. I'm glad I don't have to see it's downfall firsthand.
in reply to azimir

Where are you going? I'm currently on last yr of PhD and thinking of leaving, but I don't know if I should abandon the PhD to leave or not. I'd like to finish it, at least do it remotely, but chances of finding work immediately after PhD are slim.
in reply to thevoidzero

The position is in Germany. It might be out of the frying pan and into the fire given Germany's right wing rise, but that's happening across the western nations and we're all in trouble.

I don't have a ton of advice for you. I defended over 10 years ago, so I'm moving straight into a tenured/permanent position as senior faculty. For an ABD, I'm not sure what the landscape looks like these days.

If you want to make the move, start talking to people. Reach out to people publishing in your field and talk shop. Collaborate with them, talk about the future, and be willing to take a postdoc (or german system W1) position. It's more ramen and a small bedroom, but it's one where there's healthcare and civil rights.

Academia (and most professions) are all about networks. Talk with people, collaborate, and grow that network. Something will come along.

in reply to azimir

Thank you. I have a family to worry about so can't survive on ramen alone... But I'll look for other countries postdoc and such. I'm a bit scared of moving somewhere I don't know the local language now because of how things are going in the US, if something like this happens and I can't understand their language I'd not even know the dangers.
in reply to thevoidzero

My university in Germany operates entirely in English. The academic world is very international so it often falls back to English to support the faculty and students. Issues in the community will also be run through the university news routes, so while I've been learning German, I'll also have a big resource with my work community.

There's a few places to check for positions. I interviewed in Ireland and Scotland as well (didn't get the jobs). There's also Australia and new Zealand hiding out there. Or Canada. Hell, Mexico has a great university system you could look into.

Your PhD does open new doors. It's by no means a guarantee of a faculty spot, but it's valued so you can leverage it.

in reply to JOMusic

Outlawing Chinese AI in the USA might seem like a "straightforward solution", but it could have unintended consequences: escalation, underground development, and missed opportunities. At the end of the day, the goal should be to protect human rights and promote transparency, not just in the US or China, but around the world.
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Here you are, blaming the decline of the US empire on evil scheming foreigners and y'all fucking wonder how oh how fascism is so popular lmao
in reply to JOMusic

Anyone who doesn't know how to (safely!) pirate books, articles, films, games and software, please read, use and share the resources over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

This skill is increasingly useful.

in reply to JOMusic

Now, American you don't have right to say China is bad because it do censorship.
in reply to JOMusic

Didn't I just read an article about Apple wanting to use it. It's open source it can be forked and be American tomorrow. No matter how much Openai crys. This just shows the true lack of any knowledge on the subject. I'm not a fan of the Chinese government as much of the next guy. But the information is out there.
in reply to WolfLink

I can't confirm if this is correct or not but another example is you can use deepseek in aws bedrock right now. So it's makes the same point.
in reply to lordnikon

Honest Questions
Can a model be open source? Dont we need the data it was trained on to truly be able to reproduce, understand and modify it?
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in reply to lordnikon

Okay let's talk terminology

I meant the useable application as a for example chat bot.

The model itself is useful as far as it enables me to understand the underlying logic of the whole thing right? But without the data and I guess a training period with it I can't use it if I understood it correctly.

If I am right with the above this wouldnt make it useful as in I can reproduce it as a functioning application and I wouldn't call that opensourve in my understanding of the word.

in reply to prenatal_confusion

I don't know much as i ain't knowledgeable in ML and LLM, but i downloaded deepseek R1 7B model (which probably is the weights and architecture) from huggingface and it worked with no "data". So i can say it's reproducible.
Now does that make it open source?
in reply to prenatal_confusion

sure a model could theoretically be open source, but in this case that source would be 1) the software to train the model and 2) the training data, and good fucking luck getting either of those honestly.

the AI sphere has co-opted the term "open source" because it sounds nice, what they actually mean is just "a free copy", a free copy of deepseek is available for download.

They seem to be able to fiddle a lot with the models, but in the end calling it open source is just blatantly not fucking true.

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in reply to JOMusic

they want to jail people who use Deepseek

but not people who use Tiktok or Xiaohongshu
XHS has been out for weeks longer than Deepseek yet no action

this means that Deepseek is way more important and Sam Altman or someone else has tremendous power over the US government compared to facebook/google executives?

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The Nazis were also extremely incompetent when I came to stuff like this. Hitler had generals scrambling behind his back to produce their best weapon, but he kept finding out and making them stop along with tons of other micromanaging.

Trump is an idiot and so is musk. Most business people are short sighted and fascists even more. They also may be high on their own farts and think the system won't collapse with them "in charge" like a toddler left in s room full of candles and napalm.

Not saying that foreign powers aren't loving this, but they don't have to have control over it.

in reply to JOMusic

In the United States you get sent to prison if you use the wrong slop machine
in reply to JOMusic

A dying empire doing everything it can to delay the inevitable. We really are watching the beginning of the end of the US hegemony aren't we?
in reply to Alsephina

Prof Richard Wolff has a great analysis of things: youtu.be/9u4A0D_Wc9c
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in reply to Alsephina

The theory that the builders of Empire were the ones that understood it, and the inheritors of Empire are true believers in the false justification the builders gave and thus defeat itself when given the reigns is coming more and more true.
in reply to JOMusic

Hawley introduced the legislation, titled the Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act, on Wednesday of last year.


For people who see this, I think they meant "last month."

in reply to JOMusic

oh, these third world dictatorships with no consideration for individual freedoms and human rights...

no, wait.

in reply to JOMusic

Man I always thought Hawley would be a good president for the US.

Now I'm not so sure anymore.

in reply to x00z

You mean the coward who sent fundraising messages while hiding inside the Capitol on Jan 6?
in reply to refalo

People judging other people got really bad the last 10 years.
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another day, another dem in lemmy truly believing that his country is an immaculate, flawless crystal, that just happens to be tarnished by the evil chinese and russian... gop ended in power regardless of its own bigoted, prejudicious (white) people, bloodthirsty elites and a political-economical system that rewards cronies. blame just those inhumane, eastern, mongolic-looking people from beyond the sea.
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in reply to JOMusic

So we've gone from banning books to banning apps.

could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.


So I'd get less for stabbing someone.

in reply to SocialMediaRefugee

And you wouldn't believe how less it gave you for stealing millions from a pension fund.
in reply to JOMusic

Yeah that TikTok ban is paying off already! We really saved the children this time!!! WAhooo!!!! \s \s \s
in reply to JOMusic

Lmao.

The theory that the builders of Empire were the ones that understood it, and the inheritors of Empire are true believers in the false justification the builders gave and thus defeat itself when given the reigns is coming more and more true.

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That's not what's happening. The theory that the builders of Empire were the ones that understood it, and the inheritors of Empire are true believers in the false justification the builders gave and thus defeat itself when given the reigns is coming more and more true.
in reply to JOMusic

Cool! Do a flip next.

Might as well go all the way if you're doing stunts.

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in reply to JOMusic

On a side note, wasn't this the guy that Sean O'Brien praised for being pro-worker?
in reply to Avid Amoeba

Surprise surprise, those given access to the levers of power in the US are almost never pro-worker in reality.
in reply to JOMusic

Guess you'll have to jail all the chuds and libs who typed "Tienanmen Square Massacre" so they could post the screenshot on Reddit as some kind of gotcha on China.
in reply to JOMusic

> be european
> deepseek gets banned
> "hardfork" it to a european hosted gitlab instance
> see openai and xai tears flowing again
in reply to JOMusic

They'll sing praises of the "free market" all day, until it stops going their way.
in reply to JOMusic

Anybody have a mirror link? It'd be a shame if I accidentally downloaded it.
in reply to GooseFinger

I got it from ollama. You can select what version you want and how many parameters the model has.
There are probably a few other mirror sites, but for now I think you could try out with this, until the law is passed and comes into effect.
in reply to JOMusic

Good. They banned it here in Taiwan because it is a psyops tool even if you run the modal locally.
in reply to jaschen

How? Do they block access to github? What happens when you click this link?
in reply to jaschen

Do you have a source on Taiwan banning the local model? I only see this:

"Government agencies and critical infrastructure should not use DeepSeek, because it endangers national information security," according to a statement released by Taiwan's Ministry of Digital Affairs, per Radio Free Asia.

"DeepSeek AI service is a Chinese product. Its operation involves cross-border transmission, and information leakage and other information security concerns."


thehackernews.com/2025/02/taiw…

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in reply to JOMusic

Yeah jail everyone doing piracy too (they also might do that lmao) im reporting every republican I know using an illegal firestick,ill make california blue
in reply to JOMusic

Well, we do have ex post facto protection for the moment, soooo...

Yeah I have it on every device I own now.

No reason to use it ever, but it's there. Like, not installed, but there.