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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Basically the government knows that AI is the next big weapon and is trying to ensure it can’t be outcompeted.

Every one of these policies is designed to allow the military to copy the best technology for free and prevent opposing militaries from doing the same.

[–] the_q@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is giving wrong info and furry porn a weapon?

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

For real, we were all genuinely shocked and a little freaked out when we accidentally started predicting the future with a nontrivial degree of accuracy in the winter of 2022. Geopolitical shitposting shouldn’t be able to serve as anything even remotely close to an Oracle… and yet here we are.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

That does not require any new policy, such policies existed for long time around technology. And I am sure the military has its own versions of KillGPT4 for a while.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yay! Just what we need, more people governing technologies that they have zero clue about! This will work out perfectly.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, sure, let's just leave it to the mega-corps, what could possibly go wrong.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The solution is to vote in people who aren't old enough to have used type writers in highschool.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used typewriters in high school. Wait.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess tech changes at different rates as well in different areas, my point is just that politicians shouldn't be legislating things they have no understanding of.

Of course that just goes in general as a total restructuring of the government system would be needed to account for the specialization of modern life and the needs of 2020's society as opposed to 1770's.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm actually in complete agreement, was just goofing around. I did use one, though. My grades went up because my handwriting was so bad. It was before computers were widely available but we had a computer lab at school. There was no way to get in there unless you were in a class using it that term. I did have a c64 but no printer. And so on.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Commodore 64? Yeah, you're old 😉 My first home computer had Windows 95 on it, the first one I ever used was probably Windows 3.1 or an Apple 2

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

My body tells me that every time I get out of a chair, thanks. :)

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just like we need companies using technologies to do whatever they want with reckless abandon.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

The amount of companies that I've seen spout that their products are enhanced with AI ever since ChatGPT became a hot thing to the non-tech people is insane.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

So

A. The government installs agencies to prepare them if they need to step in and regulate AI.

B. Those agencies are also in charge of finding new ways to use AI for the government benefit.

Hello 1984. It's obviously nothing dangerous short-term but I can't say I'm a very big fan of either one of those line items.