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> ideally supported by a tax on AI usage. Curious to see how you'd write this legislation. Because I know a lot of programmers and lawyers, and they're all a
by klyrs 2y ago
> ideally supported by a tax on AI usage.
Curious to see how you'd write this legislation. Because I know a lot of programmers and lawyers, and they're all a lot better at finding loopholes than preventing them.
- ethbr1 2y agoTarget AI infrastructure providers. Ideally metered by perf-per-energy-per-time. You'll tax out some low-value use cases, but that seems less concerning as long as the tax rates are kept modest (<10%).
- klyrs 2y agoThose are some pretty high-level bullet points. Say I'd like to build out a rendering farm with a bunch of GPUs to support the movie industry. On paper, my hardware is good for rendering, crypto, and AI. Do I get taxed?
- ethbr1 2y agoIf it were going to be implemented, I think only imposing it on large+ clouds that offer IaaS/PaaS would make sense. That would simplify collection and traceability. And a bit of extra pressure on decentralization wouldn't be the worst thing.