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California AI bill veto could allow smaller devs, models to ‘flourish’
Gov. Gavin Newsom's veto of SB 1047 has been hailed by some industry veterans as good for open source innovation.
“Since SB 1047 had provisions on the downstream uses and modifications of AI models, once it left the hands of the original developers, it would have made it difficult to continue innovating in an open-source manner,” Varshney told VentureBeat. “This veto will not ‘empower innovation’ – it only further entrenches the status quo where Big Tech monopolies are allowed to rake in profits without regard for our safety, even as their AI tools are already threatening democracy, civil rights, and the environment with unknown potential for other catastrophic harms,” Gill said. The AI Policy Institute echoed this sentiment, with executive director Daniel Colson saying the decision to veto “is misguided, reckless, and out of step with the people he’s tasked with governing.”
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