This still has to go to the Senate so please for the love of god if you care about your rights and privacy tell your senator to vote NO!
My city is currently in the midst of an AI facial recognition/predictive policing thanks to a secret city partnership with Palantir, dystopian nightmare
Frankly I would be happy to see my state ban facial recognition completely, but they definitely aren’t going to, but take this as a warning.
We should have federal regulations and state regulations! There is absolutely no need for them to ban regulation at the state level other than the argument it will halt progress.
In reality they are invading your privacy and generating valuable data for these stupid AI data centers and they don’t want you to be able to decide this sucks and I want it to stop in my state!
Not only would it ban laws for the next 10 years, it would remove existing laws. Some places already have a facial recognition ban, and this would repeal it!
It’s nuts this seems to actually have some bipartisan support in the Senate, bc everyone is “so concerned” about America winning the AI race.
News flash, we probably won’t win it. It was a dumb fucking idea in the first place, and yeah they put all of our eggs into the AI basket and it’s probably going to tank the economy even more, but why TF should we be giving them even more control of our lives in the hopes that just maybe they can make a lot of money by further invading our privacy and doing some really evil shit with our data that will make the world an even worse place?
Here is an article about the May 8, 2025 hearing.
Altman, during the hearing, said that Texas had been “unbelievable” in incentivizing major AI projects. “I think that would be a good thing for other states to study,” Altman said. He predicted that the Abilene site would be the “largest AI training facility in the world.” But Altman also later cautioned against a patchwork regulatory framework for AI.
“It is very difficult to imagine us figuring out how to comply with 50 different sets of regulations,” said Altman. “One federal framework that is light touch, that we can understand, and it lets us move with the speed that this moment calls for, seems important and fine.”
Here is a quote from Peter Thiel protege, Michael Kratsios regarding AI regulation in 2019
“A patchwork of regulation of technology is not beneficial for the country. We want to avoid that. Facial recognition has important roles—for example, finding lost or displaced children. There are use cases, but they need to be underpinned by values.”
They have no values, I support a federal regulation too, but in case you haven’t noticed, the people who want you to vote to remove state regulations in favor of a “light touch” federal regulation are also in charge deciding what that “light touch” federal regulation will be and if it gets enforced at all.
Government deregulation has been in the works for a very long time. Do not let them keep taking our protections away!
Republicans won’t be happy until they’ve killed every industry. Copyright laws are meaningless now.
Where’s Lars Ulrich on this one, I wonder?
Dude, I’ve just been thinking about this as privacy violation bc it’s being used for surveillance in my state, but you just made me realize it’s probably being used for different things in different states.
The very first AI supercomputer in the U.S. was built in Memphis, TN and nobody knows what they’ve been using it for, but given Memphis and especially Nashville are such huge recording cities that is probably not an insignificant thing to consider.
That is probably why Blackburn actually opposes it, because she’s probably getting push back from her wealthy donors in Nashville!
AI porn is about to go hard
I think there’s already a law banning porn in my state. Not sure if that’s a loophole
This is how you know “pro-states rights” conservatives are lying to you.
You can tell when they’re lying because their lips move.
Sorry, got a little heated and misunderstood what you were saying, and yeah I agree that is a perfect example
This one lady is nervously stepping out of line bc she’s starting to sweat and realized it means she’s also fucked and not magically protected by being a part of the old money white men’s club
Meanwhile the technocratic elites that want this ban and all the Republicans in the house that tried to sneak this through are the ones secretly looking out for you by banning blue states from regulations to protect themselves
Here’s a story about the dystopian nightmare I’m facing bc my state is in favor of banning its own regulation and is ALLOWING THIS DEREGULATION TO GO ON
The NOPD have paused their use bc it was in violation of a city ordinance (which I’m also guessing would be reversed by this ban)
Now the FBI, ICE, National Guard, and for some reason the fucking Department of Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries also have completely unregulated access to look for whoever they want with zero oversight bc it’s a private company. We all know corporations are our frenz right?
The department of wildlife is over the rangers correct? That would explain why. Rangers are already less regulated than even the police, and they have the same powers.
Tenth Amendment, might apply here.
fuck AI
fuck these politicians sucking on the tits of billionairs
