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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by cobbzilla on Saturday July 25, 2026 @01:02AM (#49044676)
How do you do that without banning the model itself.

It doesn't matter who can or can't run it.

They are trying to ban something that can be represented entirely by a sequence of bytes. An illegal number, like the DeCSS key.

The fact that money is involved does not change the free speech aspects. This isn't CSAM or torture porn. It's data.

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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by TurdF3rguson on Saturday July 25, 2026 @04:37AM (#49045724)
It's not the model weights people are panicking over losing access to though. It's the compute.
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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by cobbzilla on Saturday July 25, 2026 @05:35AM (#49046063)
If you mean being forced to overpay for no-longer-SOTA closed models, that’s I guess the protectionist motive here: impossible to enforce, enforcement uneven and political, illegality rampant, I suppose all by design too. I’d say it’s brilliant if it weren’t so evil. I have hope saner minds will prevail.
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