US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek
US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek
According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.
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not back-dated so download away fellas (not sure if a law can apply on acts before it was a law)
15 0 ReplyEx post facto laws are expressly prohibited in Article I, so they can't pass a law criminalizing downloads from before the law was passed.
They can, however, criminalize possessing a copy of DeepSeek. In that case you'd be legally required to delete it after the law passed.
20 0 ReplyThey also can't amend the constitution via executive order or deport US citizens, but watch them try it anyway
13 0 ReplyYup.
"they can't do that, that's illegal!"
Shame the law doesn't mean Jack Fucking Shit now.
The law is whatever they want it to be at any moment.
11 0 ReplyThat order lasted about 10 minutes before a judge appointed by Ronald Fucking Reagan.
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Not sure about the laws wording, but if it is open source just create a branch with a different name.
1 0 ReplyI have seekdeep, nothing at all like DeepSeek
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In principle: no. But Americans no longer have any principles (or never did in the first place)
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