Democrats propose federal permission requirement for AI training, up to 20 years in prison for violations
mcr55 · reddit · 2026-11-13
A Reddit post amplifies a Polymarket breaking news item: US Democrats have proposed requiring AI companies to obtain federal government permission before training AI models, with violators facing up to 20 years in prison. The poster frames it as an attempt to effectively ban open source AI. The proposal would introduce a pre-approval regime for frontier model training with major implications for the open-source community.
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