Proposed bill to make it a crime to download DeepSeek in the US

Oh I thought we just did Executive Orders these days. Interesting for Congress to want to be in the pocket of the three richest men in the United States, too.

They're gonna have a hard time making it illegal to download a completely open source software lol

Do not tempt them to outlaw open source.
- Facebook already tipped their hand by prematurely banning posts about Linux.
- The most they could do is try to arbitrarily make the licenses null and void, but there's no functional way to outlaw making code publicly available without also outlawing the entirety of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Unfortunately, as I've learned recently, it doesn't look like Deepseek is actually open source.

You can download the model, but unless I'm misunderstanding, that feels comparable to calling Photoshop open source because you can download the .exe file on your computer.
- Its MIT licensed. Meaning the code is open but the license is permissible in that copy's can be subsequently closed. This is unlike with the GPL most generally associated with open source code.
- What's this? https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
- You can reweight as you please to whatever dataset you like. They can say what the training data included, but they can't share the dataset.

Well now I'm just gonna download it even harder.

I will download and upload it everywhere I can, if this gains traction.

Because prohibition works, right?

Nazis gotta try.
Prohibition of technology import is insane, how fucking moronic.

Yes, that will definitely put the toothpaste back.

Is this the bill that will finally bring egg prices down?

I had zero interest in downloading this shit before because LLMs are just lying slop machines, but if it becomes illegal, I will go out of my way to.

I'm with you on principle, but the thing is also like 600 GB of data. Not sure I have the disk space to take a stand on this one.
- No worries. I've got some 20TB drives i can throw these on 😁
  
  Now, running a model that large... Well, I'll just have to stick with the 8-13b params.
- I'd have to remove all my games, the operating system, and run my SSDs in RAID to be able to fit that and still generate things with it. 😮
- There are no lite versions? I was trying to find a small LLM version I can run on an old machine and take it off the internet (or just firewall it) and play around with it to see if there is anything worth learning there for me. I was looking at the lite version of llama but when I tried to run the install on mint I ran into some issues and then had to many drinks to focus on it so I went back to something else. Maybe next weekend. If you have any recommendations I'm all ears