The NYT article is probably propaganda in service of that, that’s what the big AI companies want, it’s part of regulatory capture.

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hoppp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

If the impact of AI is comparable to the atomic bomb then the least they could do is try to filter out terrorists.

I think this is a very convincing argument to regulate the space more.

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andy99 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Do you know what Poe’s law is?

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throwaway27448 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

...because terrorists in western africa are willing to follow american regulations? I hope this is satire.

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johnsmith1840 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

American AI labs -> industrial chinese scaping -> opensource LLM -> boko haram

It's a supply chain the US actually can easily control with KYC.

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throwaway27448 an hour ago | parent [-]

I think the chinese are doing just fine by themselves at this point

	▲	johnsmith1840 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		As the largest AI scappers on the planet.. sure They don't have nearly enough compute to be competitive on pretraining and distillation is exponentially cheaper. It's literally the same tactic they do in every industry. Steal top IP, gov funding, ban the company they stole from domestically while driving cost to zero, try to kill the original IP creators. They are actively in the process of doing this with Tesla as we speak. And are in the phase of pushing them out domestically and trying to destroy tesla marketshare globally. They have obvious skills and add a lot of value while doing this but US could stop all of this by simply stopping their supply.

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hoppp 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The regulation is not for Westen Africa, it's for USA.

American companies could maybe keep OFAC regulations for AI?

If the fintech sector can do it, AI can too.

I'm pretty sure most of the western african terrorists are blocked from using coinbase, so why not chatgpt?

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throwaway27448 2 hours ago | parent [-]

And why would americans use regulated AI software when they could just buy it unregulated from china instead?

> If the fintech sector can do it, AI can too.

Fintech requires turning the number on a screen into something you can use to make a transaction. Good luck regulating... text.

For that matter, why would anyone want to live in a country where honest citizens have to use crippled software while criminals have full freedom?

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hoppp 2 hours ago | parent [-]

AI providers like openAI or Anthropic are already on the hook for OFAC compliance, so if any terrorist group is proven to access their APIs they can face huge fines.

The same game played out in the crypto space. Local models like local wallets can't be regulated.

Accessing foreign services can't be controlled.

But regulated companies are fully liable for any use of their tools by terrorist organizations.

This is not about the citizens, it's about the companies protecting themselves.

	▲	throwaway27448 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ok, so why did you bring this up in the context of boko haram? Do you think pets.com is trying to make a bomb?!