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US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 month ago by JOMusic@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 115 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

now i gotta download something i don't even wanna download.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup. Downloaded 7b, 32b, and 70b varieties this afternoon. Entirely out of spite.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Since those smaller models are technically fine-tunes of Meta/Facebook's LLAMA, using Deepseek's outputs, I wonder if they would be covered by the bill at all.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 1 month ago

7b and 32b are Qwen2 🙃

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I literally just did the same