Something else, apparently. They would determine that in real time and launch after confirming that the other technology was facing significant backlash.
In theory the police want to investigate crime and eliminate suspects, but in practice they give up after making an arrest. The access to new technology or information change nothing about this practice.
This is why it’s important to curb these kinds of dystopian surveillance systems in the first place. They change nothing and give reach for further unwarranted intrusions into the lives of citizens. This has been seen as cops using these systems to stalk people.
As many critics of technology will tell you, the values are baked in. For instance, a Flock camera isn’t just a camera owned by the nefarious Flock company. It is a technology meant to capture license plates and report their location in real time to law enforcement.
AI isn’t some neutral technology, either. To train an AI, you first need the capital to do so, then the input. Often the input is media that affirms certain biases, etc.
Luckily for us, AI does very few things well at all and it is more costly than a human when it comes to replacing tech workers. This gives space for these people to unionize and demand better conditions before technology can replace them.
It’s well-understood that Altman, et al are running a scam and LLMs have limited capacity to produce anything at the same cost as a human worker. The longer this grift continues, the worse it becomes.
They’re funding this with shares of the company. Even though this investment will flop, they still have income as the number 1 data broker and ad company on the planet. Their investors will be unhappy to see the number go down, but it’s hard to bankrupt a company as large as Google.
The goal is likely to regulate prints via intellectual property laws and seeing all the prints is the purpose of this law. Then come fines and lawsuits over prints.
Basically they want to open the door for patent and copyright abuse in the 3D printing world while expanding the government surveillance network for themselves and large manufacturers.
Their answer would be to make the Chinese sell the US software version to a US company, as they did with TIKTOK US.
They’re caught between raising privacy safeguards (hurting US data brokers like Google) and making sure a foreign company doesn’t have access to American users. Their answer was to force the foreign company to sell their US subsidiary. This is the current playbook.
You will lose more rights and the government will see to it that only US companies can exploit you, though even this is becoming increasingly untenable.
Something else, apparently. They would determine that in real time and launch after confirming that the other technology was facing significant backlash.