I’m with you up to the part where the gov coerces private cos to open source their code.
Italy banned #ChatGPT, flagging “worries over a lack of age restrictions on ChatGPT, and how the chatbot can serve factually incorrect information in its responses.”
The irony is that they seem to have forgotten the internet exists, and is full of age-inappropriate material and factually incorrect information.
Countries that ban #AI tools are shooting themselves in the foot.
If governments want to “regulate” AI, they should require that all AI development be open source.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/04/italy-has-banned-chatgpt-heres-what-other-countries-are-doing.html
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I’m not a fan of the government coercing anyone.
They’re going to regulate it regardless. I would rather that regulation foster innovation and openness rather than stifling by making the barriers to entry so high that only the mega-corporations can compete in the AI space.
Requiring AI development to be open source would be a decentralizing force, whereas restrictive regulation would be a centralizing one.