[mrmckizzle]

Can you use an LLM to teach you how to build a gun or use it to design a gun for you build? Can an LLM be used to generate images of young people for older perverts? If yes, then it's not very hard to make the argument that you need to be licensed in order to run an LLM on your local machine. Why wouldn't you want to be licensed? Are you against protecting children and public safety? Many students die from gun violence every year and massive amounts of minors are taken advantage of by human filth. Why would you be against protecting the most vulnerable in our society?

It will look good for politicians who pass legislation to "protect" the vulnerable. Potentially improving the chances of another term due to the marketing benefits of pushing such a law through. I think you are mistaken believing that this may never happen.

[linkregister]

In the US, attaching legislation like that to firearms instructions would doom its success. It sounds like a great idea to ratfuck a potential bill. No Republican would be able to pass a bill that bans local agents from helping citizens exercise their 2nd Amendment rights.

The politics are probably different in other countries. We're still seeing Chat Control efforts in the EU.

[mrmckizzle]

That is the one of the main reasons they passed the law to limit 3-d printers.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/keeping-new-yorkers-safe-go...

Now where I could agree with you is if you made the argument on a state-by-state level. Pretty sure what you said would hold up in Texas

[andai]

https://xkcd.com/504/

> I think the crypto community took the wrong side in that fight. We should have lobbied to keep it counted as weaponry.

> Why?

> Once they get complacent, we break out the second amendment.

[iugtmkbdfil834]

Yeah. I suspect parent either is very optimistic or does not know how restricted current batch of language models are already or does not recognize that, while it may some time to completely neuter, they do have time.

It seems that powers that be learned something from the world wide web deployment.

[g42gregory]

By the same logic, you would need to license Google and youtube access. Just because it's interactive, doesn't change the premise. But yes, that exactly the arguments Anthropic and OpenAI will use for the regulatory capture.

[torpid]

Wait until they figure out regular people can just use photoshop to hand make photorealistic depictions and regular CAD software to make gun parts. Better license computer use, too.