[avaer]

They'll just make it a crime to run the models unless they authorize you (classifying it as a munition, like they tried to do with encryption), and if your power bill is suspicious you'll find yourself in jail.

Any company providing the models will be deemed a threat to national security.

No need to block the download.

[15155]

Citizens were and are free to use the technology (cryptography and every other export-controlled item); your "power bill is suspicious, go to jail" FUD doesn't really track with history.

> Any company providing the models will be deemed a threat to national security.

Any company providing specifically-controlled models to foreigners would hypothetically be prosecuted.

[avaer]

There's a famous poem called "First They Came" about how slippery this slope can be in a heated political climate.

I don't believe for a second this ends with "foreigners", this is about setting up infrastructure for controlling the technology. Foreigners are just the current excuse.

Note that TFA mentions they are supposedly hand-picking access to whoever they want, based on whatever criteria they want, already.

[15155]

Ah, invoking Godwin. "First they came" in 1976 when ITAR was first passed, or maybe "first they came" in the 1940s when we didn't export Proximity Fuzes, right?

Countries are free to prevent exports of technology. Equating export controls with the Holocaust is disgusting.

[avaer]

I did not bring in Godwin, but I guess he's here now :D.

I'm more trying to invoke GRRM. This is a Game of Thrones: billionaire CEO's complain about each other to the government to get their competitors blocked/tripped up with acts of fiat, which is what happened with Fable 5.

And in the linked post, it says GPT-5.6 access decisions are supposedly just hand picked.

The stories about export controls are just songs they sing to the peasants.

There are claims that Chinese companies are mining + reselling Claude subscriptions like crazy anyway.

[15155]

> I did not bring in Godwin

Who is the "They" in "First They Came" referring to exactly?

> There are claims that Chinese companies are mining + reselling Claude subscriptions like crazy anyway.

Which will become a felony with export-controlled models, which is why identity verification is becoming a thing.

[hhjinks]

Nobody was compared to the nazis, so Godwin's law is not yet relevant in this discussion.