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by Art9681 1084 days ago
I'm going to play devil's advocate and state that a lot of what you mentioned will be relevant to a tiny part of the world that has the means to enforce this. The law will be forced to change as a response to AI. Many debates will be had. Many crap laws will be made by people grasping at straws but it's too late. Putting red tape around this technology puts that nation at a technological disadvantage. I would go as far as labeling a national security threat.

I'm calling it now. Based on what I see today. Europe will position itself as a leader in AI legislation, and its economy will give way to the nations that want to enter the race and grab a chunk of the new economy.

It's a Catch 22. You either gimp your own technological progress, or start a war with a nation that does not. Pretty sure Russia and China don't really care about the ethics behind it. There are plenty of nations capable enough in the same boat.

Now what? OK, so in some hypothetical future China has an uncensored model with free reign over the internet. The US and Europe has banned this. What's stopping anyone from running the Chinese model? There isn't enough money in the world to enforce software laws.

How long have they tried to take down The Pirate Bay? Pretty much every permutation of every software that's ever been banned can be found and ran with impunity if you have the technical knowledge to do so. No law exists that can prevent that.

If it did, OpenAI wouldn't exist.

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> How long have they tried to take down The Pirate Bay? Pretty much every permutation of every software that's ever been banned can be found and ran with impunity if you have the technical knowledge to do so. No law exists that can prevent that.

Forms of this argument get tossed out a lot. Laws don’t prevent, they hopefully limit. Murder has been illegal for a long time, it still happens.

You missed the point: these laws are not limiting other countries, only those who introduce them. Self-limiting, giving advantage to others.