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Regulatory capture and monopolies are now as American as apple pie.
by RhodesianHunter 3y ago
Regulatory capture and monopolies are now as American as apple pie.
- alpineidyll3 3y agoThis is so disgusting and enraging. I hope the whole startup community blackballs @sama for this.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoFolks like to lick a boot
- ChatGTP 3y agoWhere is the regulatory capture? You might just need to apply for a license. Why is that so horrible? Most travel agents need a license, taxi drivers etc. Not sure why the same shouldn't apply for "AI"?
- antiloper 3y agoOi mate you got a loicense for that matrix multiplication?
- EscapeFromNY 3y agoCan't wait for our future where GPUs are treated like controlled substances. Sure we'll grab one for you from behind the counter... as long as your license checks out.
- daveguy 3y agoI think these worse case scenarios are overblown just like LLMs being AGI-imminent. This post and another on this thread saying people will have to get a license for compilers or to hook compiler output to the internet would result in the very rapid disintegration of Silicon Valley. Surely there would be a head-spinning pivot against regulation if it looks like it will be that draconian. Otherwise a lot more innovation other than AI would be crushed.
- AlexandrB 3y agoRemember DeCSS[1] and later how AACS LA successfully litigated the banning of a number[2]? There was a lot of backlash in the form of distributing DeCSS and later the AACS key, but the DMCA and related WIPO treaties were never repealed and are still used to do things like take youtube-dl repos offline. Even pretty draconian legislation can stand if it doesn't affect the majority of the country and is supported by powerful industry groups. I could definitely see some kind of compiler licensing requirement meeting these criteria. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS#Legal_response https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS#Legal_response [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
- Sunhold 3y agoThe taxi industry is a famous example of regulatory capture and its harms.
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- simonw 3y agoTaxi driver medallions are one of the most classic examples of regulatory capture.
- ur-whale 3y ago> Most travel agents need a license, taxi drivers etc. You say it like it's a good thing.
- ChatGTP 3y agoI'm saying that a license might be a simple and cheap thing to get, there's no need for 930 comments freaking out just yet.
- RhodesianHunter 3y agoThe whole point of this type of legislation is to make it hard or impossible for upstarts to compete with the incumbents. Licensing is additional overhead. It's likely to be onerous and serve absolutely no purpose other than keeping startups out.
- supriyo-biswas 3y agoThere’s similar regulation being proposed in the EU. I wonder if OpenAI is behind it as well.
- wewxjfq 3y agoEU publishes the lobbying data. Seems like OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google all had at least two recent meetings with EU representatives on the AI Act.
- bigbillheck 3y ago'Now'?