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by bgwalter 402 days ago
The same president that is putting 145% tariffs on China could put 1000% tariffs on Internet chat bots located in China. Or order the Internet cables to be cut as a last resort (citing a national emergency as is the new practice).

I'm not sure at all what China will do. I find it likely that they'll forbid AI at least for minors so that they do not become less intelligent.

Military applications are another matter that are not really related to these copyright issues.

2 comments

How exactly does one add a tariff to a foreign-based chat bot?
Build a big firewall. And then fine massively any ISP that allows traffic to reach bad hosts...
You know that 20 bucks a month a lot of people pay for chatgpt?

Yeah..

you tax it if the "chatgpt" is foreign.

>Or order the Internet cables to be cut as a last resort (citing a national emergency as is the new practice).

what if they route through third countries?