Is this a nothingburger just used to try to get companies to build datacenters in the state? Thank you, Mr. Montana senator, for providing the guarantee that all AI use is legal except for those...
Is this a nothingburger just used to try to get companies to build datacenters in the state?
Zolnikov summarized the law as: “Everything is legal except for what’s not,” with exceptions to be added such as deepfakes or posting inappropriate pictures of children. “Unless it’s because of safety or security, other jurisdictions cannot limit the use of AI or computation,” he said.
Thank you, Mr. Montana senator, for providing the guarantee that all AI use is legal except for those uses of AI which are forbidden by the law.
US states are at liberty to structure their local government as they wish. This usually involves a bicameral legislature (although not always) similar to the US one, where one chamber is called...
US states are at liberty to structure their local government as they wish. This usually involves a bicameral legislature (although not always) similar to the US one, where one chamber is called the senate and its members senators.
Some of the state senates predate the federal senate!
"State senator" unambiguously refers to a senator for the state legislature, and outside of as a term of address maybe, using just "senator" for a state senator would be seen as being deliberately...
Why on earth do they use the same term??
"State senator" unambiguously refers to a senator for the state legislature, and outside of as a term of address maybe, using just "senator" for a state senator would be seen as being deliberately misleading if not lying. As a result it's not so hard to tell them apart in the prose of news articles once you know state legislatures are a thing. A news article would refer to this guy as "a Montana state senator" and use "a Montana senator" for one of the two representatives Montana has in the US Senate.
Of course the top-level comment isn't a news article and was using it as a term of address, so not much help there.
And I thought the name would refer to rights to bootloader unlocking - you bought your own computing device you should be able to run any computing task you want on it.
And I thought the name would refer to rights to bootloader unlocking - you bought your own computing device you should be able to run any computing task you want on it.
Seems to me that this is really an attempt to evade regulations intended to prevent the externalities of datacenter computing - pushing up power prices, draining water supplies, excessive...
Seems to me that this is really an attempt to evade regulations intended to prevent the externalities of datacenter computing - pushing up power prices, draining water supplies, excessive emissions from on-site generators, persistent noise, and the like.
In any case, it's a shift in the burden to require provable harm before regulation can take effect, regardless of public demand to prevent harm.
Is this a nothingburger just used to try to get companies to build datacenters in the state?
Thank you, Mr. Montana senator, for providing the guarantee that all AI use is legal except for those uses of AI which are forbidden by the law.
Wild to me that there's only two senators per state and they still find the time to mess around with ineffective policies like this.
He's a state senator, so there are 50 of them for Montana. So plenty of time for stupid ideas to go around!
Hold on, a state senator is different from a state's senator? To a non-US person, that's wild. Why on earth do they use the same term?? 😂
US states are at liberty to structure their local government as they wish. This usually involves a bicameral legislature (although not always) similar to the US one, where one chamber is called the senate and its members senators.
Some of the state senates predate the federal senate!
"State senator" unambiguously refers to a senator for the state legislature, and outside of as a term of address maybe, using just "senator" for a state senator would be seen as being deliberately misleading if not lying. As a result it's not so hard to tell them apart in the prose of news articles once you know state legislatures are a thing. A news article would refer to this guy as "a Montana state senator" and use "a Montana senator" for one of the two representatives Montana has in the US Senate.
Of course the top-level comment isn't a news article and was using it as a term of address, so not much help there.
And I thought the name would refer to rights to bootloader unlocking - you bought your own computing device you should be able to run any computing task you want on it.
Seems to me that this is really an attempt to evade regulations intended to prevent the externalities of datacenter computing - pushing up power prices, draining water supplies, excessive emissions from on-site generators, persistent noise, and the like.
In any case, it's a shift in the burden to require provable harm before regulation can take effect, regardless of public demand to prevent harm.