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NOV. 6, 2026 AT 6:30AM ET
I really believe that just a tiny bit of sensible regulation will immediately kill most of this AI nonsense.
The basics of regulations get mentioned and stocks go down. That brings a smile to my face
Here's a transcript:
nixCraft@mastodon.social: The tweet that crashed NASDAQ and AI stocks in the US and Asia. Lmao. I say bring on aggressive regulations for this AI bullshit. The first step must be forcing them to prove they obtained explicit permission for every single word, code and image they stole from others. We need to claw back every single penny from Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and the rest who stole data to train their shitty AI. They were so happy so see job losses and acting like brats. Fuck all of them
Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari: Top of the Democratic agenda on day 1 needs to be a pause on advanced AI development, regulation of this out of control industry, and a ban on artificial superintelligence.
FYI, Schumer & Jeffries will not do any of this.
It has got to be banned in educational settings as soon as possible. Then start drafting regulations for it as a whole.
Damn straight!
I'd rather see regulations on how data centers are made, powered, cooled, and maintained. The IP stuff is only an issue because copyright is wielded against individuals and small business by organizations that regularly flaunt the rules. Copyright needs a complete restructuring and has at least since Disney completely fucked it 50 years ago.
Yup. Universal studios got control of Udio through a lawsuit and the only thing they did was slap copyrights on anything generated and stop you from downloading songs on free accounts. No one making the music used to train it got paid.
These copyright companies want to own it so it benefits shareholders. On top of that, putting a huge entry price on making a "legal" model suits big AI companies just fine since it kills open source models for business use.
It's hard to watch. Everyone is being manipulated into bootlicking the copyright industry.
Ok, but did they have to use Trump's "superintelligence" pet word in a sentence?
ASI (artificial super [as in beyond human] intelligence) has been a research (and SciFi) topic for decades. Check out 'Person of Interest'for an easily accessible and somewhat prescient (in places) version.
The tech bros redefined the language to their advantage. LLMs barely pass the Turing test (but they do, in certain circumstances, where predicting the next word works)
Cheeto in Chief has no clue and a criminally uneducated populace (democracy requires education), even first pat the post.
Actual ASI is probably at least one and likely a few significant AI theory advancements away (but not that many years), and then it can self improve, which is the scary thing. The last thing we want is psycho/sociopaths in guiding that transition.
That's not what they did. "Artificial Superintelligence" is something the AI executives have been talking about. "Super Intelligence" is Trump's term for Artificial Intelligence because somehow an LLM appearing to be intelligent makes it not "artificial" in his mind.
I think the bigger problem is them using the fascist echo chamber, Twitter.
I thought "artificial superintelligence" (ASI) is just another way to say AGI, rather than specifically Trump's forced buzzword.
It’s actually 3 things: agi is “like an average human”, asi is the self improving entity that is basically a god, and there’s normal ai (different kinds, most people only know LLMs/genai). Trump was so enamoured by the chatbot that he thinks it is super intelligent, hence the si.
This tweet did nothing. The "AI" "industry" has always been a house of cards with none of the major players (outside of the chipmakers) coming anywhere near profitablity. This correction was overdue, investors were just looking for a sign and some are just using the excuse of democrats to finally get out.
Fire under the sea.
Yes, that was a common gag on the show