Trump administration directs OpenAI to require federal approval for every GPT-5.6 customer

I would say “approve your institution” but there’s still that citizenship-dependent demand out of Commerce.

In the US, the state has been hollowed out and captured by large corporations that then stuff the law with pork, carveouts, subsidies, and liability shields. In China, the state is ideologically coherent enough to let markets run while still refusing to let private firms become political entities

@iwearahoodie “they’re bad too in their own special way” doesn’t make it better, y’know

ngl it’s kinda wild that China is the land of hypercapitalist competition fueled by open-weight models anyone can use, and America is the land where the executive branch of government must personally approve you to have the privilege of giving a private company your money

@provisionalidea true. but ask deepseek about Uyghurs, tiananmen square, or whinnie the pooh and see what happens.

@iwearahoodie @provisionalidea Ask chat gpt and Claude about Israel and see what happens 🙃

@provisionalidea if china comes lead in the AGI race, it would be opposite. china will cover as secret and us will be open source.

it is where you are put you in a difference race.

@iwearahoodie @provisionalidea The irony in all of this is that nothing has happened to the y Uyghurs, and the propaganda about this is entirely in the Western media.

You can just go there!

Or just, you know, follow back the sources of the statute absurd claims.

@provisionalidea the US is more communist than it likes to admit, while China is less communist than it likes to state publicly

@iwearahoodie @provisionalidea Other people use AI to solve real problems; when you use AI it just makes you look more like an idiot. For your own good, I suggest you stop using AI.

@iwearahoodie @provisionalidea It is absolutely true. Literally everything you think happened did not just not happen, nothing remotely like it happened

OPEN SOURCE IS THE ONLY WAY! All these companies can sit with closed source products in their little attics.

This will be the case for AI x Bio as well.

We need a very strong open source community across the board.

@georgedarroch China’s been pretty self-aware about its capitalism since Deng tbh

@iwearahoodie @provisionalidea 没错，你去问问ChatGPT 关于爱泼斯坦的事情怎么样，有几个人被追责了？

@RelaxedPop cope

I will agree with you if the government makes ZERO investments in those chinese AI companies and do not demand 100% access to all their data and corporate secrets ; as well as total compliance to their intel and security needs.

The moment thats the case - thats basically what communist countries do.

USSR could make cars, in fact, anything a fraction of the cost of the West during the cold war.

If free or cheap does not = good. Someone must be paying something for it - what are you paying the free or cheap things with?

@guohaoyu110 @provisionalidea 假设性问题通常是诡辩的蠢招数

Based on the pattern we see here, if a smart 12 year old makes an ai breakthrough from their basement I suppose the feds would just bust down their door in the name of natsec to regulate this forbidden sorcery, I mean tech. The truth is, the world doesn’t have the systemic scaffold to sustain anything other than a dystopian future, because our current model of civilization just so happens to not be so scalable as is, so country admins have to keep hotfixing it by preventing certain “paths of progress” that are incompatible with that model

@provisionalidea China's models were all stolen though.

@provisionalidea the west is a state of mind