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Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] General_Effort 12 points 6 months ago (20 children)

I had a short look at the text of the bill. It's not as immediately worrying as I feared, but still pretty bad.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1047

Here's the thing: How would you react, if this bill required all texts that could help someone "hack" to be removed from libraries? Outrageous, right? What if we only removed cybersecurity texts from libraries if they were written with the help of AI? Does it now become ok?

What if the bill "just" sought to prevent such texts from being written? Still outrageous? Well, that is what this bill is trying to do.

[–] Cosmicomical -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

Seems a reasonable request. You are creating a tool with the potential to be used as a weapon, you must be able to guarantee it won't be used as such. Power is nothing without control.

[–] TheGrandNagus 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

How is that reasonable? Almost anything could be potentially used as a weapon, or to aid in crime.