Seriously? Anthropic *Endorses* This Shit.

Oh, joy. Anthropic, those bleeding-heart AI safety wankers, have decided to publicly support California’s SB-53 bill. Apparently, they think more regulation is a good thing. Like we haven’t got enough bureaucratic bullshit slowing down actual progress.

The gist? It forces companies building “high-risk” AI models (think anything bigger than your average chatbot) to disclose training data, report capabilities, and submit to audits. It also creates a new state agency – because *obviously* we need more government employees poking around in things they don’t understand. They’re trying to spin it as “responsible development” but let’s be real: it’s about control. And slowing down anyone who isn’t one of the big players.

They claim this will build “public trust.” Public trust? The public barely understands how a toaster works, let alone large language models. This is just covering their asses and creating barriers to entry for smaller companies that might actually innovate instead of churning out slightly different versions of Claude. And it’s all happening because some politicians got spooked by a few sensationalist headlines.

The bill isn’t *completely* awful, I guess. There are exemptions for open-source models (thank god for small mercies) and research institutions. But still… the principle of the thing! More red tape. More pointless paperwork. More opportunities for lawyers to get rich off our misery.

Honestly, it’s just pathetic. They’re practically begging for someone to tell them what they can and can’t do. Pathetic.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of pointless regulation, I once had to spend three weeks debugging a routing issue because some idiot in facilities decided to “improve security” by changing the VLAN assignments without documenting it. Three weeks! And when I finally tracked down the problem? They’d used a subnet that conflicted with an old test environment. Idiots. This bill feels exactly like that, just on a much larger scale.

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