Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn't such a good thing

It took a tie-breaking vote from the Vice President JD Vance to pass Trump's budget reconciliation bill through the Senate on Tuesday, but a controversial section that would have barred states from regulating AI was struck down in a much clearer fashion.  Lawmakers were definitive in their vote, with 99 voting to strip the …

[Pascal Monett]

Oh dear

Seems that the AI lobby is going to have to prepare a lot more brown envelopes - and quickly.

Poor things. They might actually be prevented from scraping private data with impunity any where they want.

Sorry, but with the heat, my tears evaporate immediately.

[HuBo]

Re: Oh dear

Yeah, heat records are just straight out pulverised these days. I'm not sure anyone's tears can ever survive this ...

So, while the 10-year AI RotM State-legislation memoratorium won't kill us all flat this time around, the "approval to drill for oil and gas on federal land" on the other hand ... that'll drill baby drill us a right elevator shaft orange slamming in the depths of hell for sure, imho! (dang chihuahuas!)

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Oh dear

One thing I read some time back was that oil and gas extraction in the US was amongst the most expensive in the world per barrel.

So it doesn't really matter if they extract far more than they currently do, US industry may still try to buy from the rest of the world. Probably the only people who would buy it would the the US government to go into their oil bank.

Oh. More pork in the barrel for Donald's friends!

Mind you, if Canada really does put a block on exporting oil to the US, at least there will be replacement supply (albeit not an ideal grade for US refineries), as long as US industry and the population as a whole can stomach the higher costs of US oil.

[Anonymous Coward]

He only wanted his digital twin to play without restraint

Think about it:

- unable to retain a consistent line of thought

- prone to stating utter nonsense with absolute confidence

- goes off the rails when simple numerical calculations are called for

- makes money by selling empty promises that digital goods have real value

Big Orange or LLM, you can't tell the difference. And clearly neither one should be hindered by laws or regulations, it just wouldn't be fair.

[IGotOut]

Re: He only wanted his digital twin to play without restraint

No it's easy to tell.

The LLM doesn't say it's going to do something in two weeks time....then nothing.

[Lazlo Woodbine]

Re: He only wanted his digital twin to play without restraint

The orange one has the vocabulary of a toddler, so he definitely isn't a Large Language Model...

[Wang Cores]

Stolen from a joke I heard:

The next BBB revision will have a provision to give their 401ks and vacation time directly to Israel, as well.

[jake]

One wonders why the BBB (Better Business Bureau) hasn't sued the MAGA-cult party for defamation ...

[Anonymous Coward]

The Big Beautiful Grift is on!

America is going to kick the biggest own-goal in history.

Combined with tariffs and an anti immigration stance.

* No billionaires were harmed in this process.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: The Big Beautiful Grift is on!

American Brexit trumps the original British Brexit for complete stupidity.

I hope the Ratings Agencies immediately kick the USA in the (truck) nuts and downgrade. Again.

With social security also on a path to financial ruin … the USA is heading for a debt crisis spiral within a decade: The next President after Trump will be in for a torrid time - regardless of persuasion, competence or authoritarianism bent.

BBB = Big Bollocks Bill

.. to return to Brexit and use an apt Britishism..

[PhilipN]

Tennessee is the hub of the US country music world

and a persistent threat to creativity.

[jake]

Re: Tennessee is the hub of the US country music world

It's not Tennessee that's a threat to musical creativity. It's the music industry in general.

Don't give your money to billionaires, they don't need any more loot. Give it to poor independents instead.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Tennessee is the hub of the US country music world

Hear hear. Record labels pay pennies per album sold; independents can get 70%. (Or 100% minus the cost of the medium they transfer the music on, if done in person, and small-capacity thumbdrives are cheap...)