[delichon]

It would be better if the AI censorship was lawless, rather than authorized by the Arms Export Control Act of 1976, since that would allow the Article III branch of the federal government to be a defense against it. The lawfulness makes it worse.

[AnthonyMouse]

Some people have been pointing out for decades that granting unchecked discretionary powers to the executive branch is a hazard. Now there is an executive using them to do things a lot of people don't like.

Are the people who don't like it going to withdraw those powers the next time they have the opportunity? The main alternative is more of this.

[malcolmgreaves]

The same kind of thinking was used on encryption algorithms in the 90s.

[uproarchat]

Only a few of us are big enough to fit an LLM on a tshirt