But in a separate Fortune editorial from earlier this month, Stanford computer science professor and AI expert Fei-Fei Liargued that the “well-meaning” legislation will “have significant unintended consequences, not just for California but for the entire country.”
The bill’s imposition of liability for the original developer of any modified model will “force developers to pull back and act defensively,” Li argued. This will limit the open-source sharing of AI weights and models, which will have a significant impact on academic research, she wrote.
Same energy as PirateSoftware’s “If AAA companies can’t kill games due to always online DRM then small indie devs have to support their games forever, thus bankrupting them” argument.
Holy shit this is a fucking terrible idea.
Same energy as PirateSoftware’s “If AAA companies can’t kill games due to always online DRM then small indie devs have to support their games forever, thus bankrupting them” argument.
I haven’t yet read Li’s editorial, but I’m generally more inclined to trust her take on these issues than Hinton and Bengio’s.