Saw it now, I'm now the happy recipient of all ~ai notifications, lol

The EU really is a mess. Many people are ready to roll up their sleeves but the bureaucracy kills everything. Brexit does that to a union - that loss seems like a win to some member states but the balance is gone... kaput. Sweden is one of the more liberty loving states in the EU nowadays, there are others too and the strive for liberty is growing, but there's still Germany and France - and on the topic of AI, Italy - that are extremely anti-liberty when it comes to enforcing "zhe rules" as strict as possible because we have to protect the 0.0001% of people with deep mental birth defects by treating everyone equally to that.

They're not wrong. France is fucking terrible. I know a lot of people there and it's a hard life. All the duties, but benefits are meager and if they grow too fast, you'll just be taxed to the point that it becomes meager. Same in Belgium but there you just get taxed as if you were a billionaire and Bernie was your emperor no matter how much you earn.

But: the US has work to do. The trick is to reduce harm, attract growth. Honest players won't be scared by plain (legal) liabilities, just don't overdo it, like Biden almost killing US bitcoin. Scammers will if they can be held liable for their stuff. It's important that there aren't any crony privileged people, which - at least for a while, I haven't asked him where he's at on it - even Elon thought about Sam Altman. That has to go, even if it's just perception.

Huggingface is awesome. It's the premier reason why I have faith in humanity when it comes to AI, because of all the people publishing their stuff because that platform enabled them. I'm truly an "AI" skeptic because I know how people get exploited (e.g. #1013688), as I've worked in the bad (=exploitative, proprietary) flavor of (fin)tech for over 20 years before I defected and made what used to be hobby (FOSS) the standard in my life, 13 years ago now (yes, I'm almost a boomer.) But the open source movement around it is awesome, and there are many people that just want to contribute to progress and efficiency. These people are the real heroes.