This legislation was written to protect American tech bros, pure and simple. OpenAI is screaming about how DeepSeek stole their data, and how China-made AI is a huge security risk. Of course, OpenAI stole the data from us first, and it’s not actually a security risk if you download the model and run it locally on your own hardware, offline. They’re just throwing a fit to protect their massive profits.

But what they fail to understand is: you can’t un-foot the lettuce.

DeepSeek has been on Hugging Face and GitHub for a while now. Plenty of time for independent AI model makers to download the whole dataset, intermingle it with other datasets, and create a hybrid that won’t give you bullshit answers when you ask it about Taiwan or Tiananmen Square. Technically, no longer an AI model developed in China, and just as problematic for OpenAI.

The community will continue to make iterations of this new toy as well, so the next DeepSeek could easily come from Canada, Poland, Korea, India… you get the idea. Hawley’s going to be busy, trying to ban the whole world. Which, in fairness, does seem to be the greater MAGA foreign policy strategy right now.

The point is, bad legislation won’t fix the fact that OpenAI needs to re-think their strategy. We already know that you don’t need to build Skynet to create ChatGPT v6, and they’ve been bullshitting us for a while now.

As the article points out, the original lyric from American Idiot is, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.” They changed it to, “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda.”

…Can this even be considered a significant change? It’s more like a modernization of the original language. Whose agenda did they think Green Day was previously referring-- oh, right. They probably didn’t do any research, did they? It’s just manufactured outrage, so they can pretend that the left is just as vile as they are.