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Unbelievable. I like Scott Wiener for his housing policies but this bill is rampant overstepping from the government. Ironically, it will have the same effect a
by huevosabio 2y ago
Unbelievable. I like Scott Wiener for his housing policies but this bill is rampant overstepping from the government. Ironically, it will have the same effect as the NIMBY system he has fought for so long.
Some nuggets...
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So we are only allowed to train what they allow us:
This bill would require that a developer, before initiating training of a nonderivative covered model, comply with various requirements, including implementing the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown of the covered model until that covered model is the subject of a limited duty exemption.
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Of course it comes with a new department with powers to impose fees:
This bill would also create the Frontier Model Division within the Department of Technology and would require the division to, among other things, review annual certification reports from developers received pursuant to these provisions and publicly release summarized findings based on those reports. The bill would authorize the division to assess related fees and would require deposit of the fees into the Frontier Model Division Programs Fund, which the bill would create.
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And, obviously, we must pay consultants:
This bill would also require the Department of Technology to commission consultants, as prescribed, to create a public cloud computing cluster, to be known as CalCompute, with the primary focus of conducting research into the safe and secure deployment of large-scale artificial intelligence models and fostering equitable innovation that includes, among other things, a fully owned and hosted cloud platform.
- sanxiyn 2y ago> including implementing the capability to promptly enact a full shutdown So you need to be able to turn it off. It should be easy? Still it seems to be a good thing to make sure you can turn it off.
- jpollock 2y agoPeople saying “no, you can’t do that” is why open source software exists.
- Dig1t 2y ago>until that covered model is the subject of a limited duty exemption. The second half of that sentence clarifies. It's not that you have to be able to shut down the model, everyone knows it's trivial to turn off a computer. It's that the government can force you to shut down your program until such time as they give you regulatory approval to turn it back on again.
- michaelmrose 2y agoSo require a backdoor to shut down software running on someone else's hardware you mean? Doesn't this inherently break normal distribution of source code which inherently doesn't come with an off switch?
- Kim_Bruning 2y agoHow exactly? If it's floss software, everyone has their own copy. If there's a million people who downloaded my model weights, do I get to phone them up and ask politely? ;-)