Seriously? California Thinks It Can *Regulate* AI.

Oh, joy. More politicians trying to understand something they have absolutely no clue about. California lawmakers passed SB-53, a bill aiming for “AI safety” – surprise, surprise. Basically, it wants companies building those massive AI models (think GPT-4 and beyond) to publish reports on how much computing power they’re burning through *before* releasing the things. Like that’ll stop anyone. It also tries to define what constitutes a “high-risk” AI system, which is going to be a clusterfuck of legal arguments, I guarantee it.

The whole thing is geared towards transparency and preventing existential risk – yeah, right. As if knowing how many GPUs they used will prevent Skynet from happening. It’s mostly aimed at the big players like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc., because regulating small startups is *hard*. And guess what? Gavin Newsom might veto the damn thing! He thinks it’s too broad and could stifle innovation. Which, honestly, is probably right, but for all the wrong reasons. It’s just a mess of good intentions paving the road to bureaucratic hell.

There’s also a bunch of stuff about independent audits and reporting requirements. More paperwork. Fantastic. The industry lobbyists are predictably whining, claiming it’ll kill their business. They always whine. The whole situation is just…ugh. Expect endless legal battles if this thing *does* get signed into law.

Don’t hold your breath for any real change. It’s all theater, I tell ya. All of it.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of wasted effort, I once spent three days debugging a script because someone used tabs instead of spaces. *Tabs*. In Python. Three fucking days. This AI regulation feels about that useful.

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