Banning open weights would face constitutional challenge; compute regulation seen as more viable
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-14
- @wholemars: any attempt to ban open weights models would trigger a constitutional challenge, and US courts move slowly — "by the time they decide whether the ban is legal, superintelligence will be here."
- @willcb adds: the US legal system is hesitant to regulate the free exchange of public information, and open weights are really just public information.
- The workable approach, he argues, is regulating large compute deployments — closer to precedent, though still facing pushback.
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