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Christine Lemmer-Webber

White House puts out National Policy framework regarding AI https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/03.20.26-National-Policy-Framework-for-Artificial-Intelligence-Legislative-Recommendations.pdf

A couple quick things to note:

- It says that while the White House believes AI output should not be subject to copyright, it also acknowledges the matter is *NOT SETTLED* and defers to the courts (this is increasingly my read as I've been reading more and more about the state of case law: FOSS projects incorporating AI output be warned!)
- It says that states should not be allowed to make state level decisions restricting AI. Once again, Republicans like to sell themselves as "states rights" advocates, but it's only when it suits them.

This isn't policy yet, but it's indicating where the White House would like to push said policy. Again, I would consider all of these things extremely unsettled, in the US, but ESPECIALLY internationally.

Christine Lemmer-Webber 1d ago

Also, and I want to say more on this soon, but if you think that the big AI players are hoping for *anything but* them being able to put a legislative moat around themselves where output *is* copyrighted and training materials *are* restricted but they're the *only ones* able to play, you're being a fool.

Their key goal is to capture rent on all intellectual pursuits.

@cwebber This is one of those cases where the Trump admin believes their own side's propaganda that's meant for voters, not decision makers. Here it's "the free market will bring AI breakthroughs" while AI companies know the models are stagnating and would really like a state-backed monopoly. Similarly, "the military can crush anyone in a couple of weeks" is a message intended for voters, not decision makers, and yet the admin seems to have believed it when attacking Iran.

Nuwagaba Gift 1d ago

@Siroj42
It's so unbelievable how they're falling for thr same traps they set for others . Is the Trump administration still able to deceive more people?

Joe Brockmeier 1d ago

@nuwagaba2 @Siroj42 I think it's a mistake to assume that people in the Trump administration "believe" what they say, or that they're as dumb as they look.

I mean, they're _dumb_ in the same ways that mob bosses like Gotti or Capone were dumb.

But they're cunning, and they're being manipulated by people who know exactly how things would work when we attacked Iran.

The key to understanding what Trump, et al, are doing is that their goal is to destabilize the United States and conduct the biggest bust out in the history of mankind. They're undermining all of the infrastructure and systems that have made the U.S. a superpower.

What's going on right now in Iran benefits Israel and benefits Russia. It was never meant to benefit the people of the U.S.

Destabilizing our economy creates chaos at home that Trump's backers can take advantage of. Look at other news about Trump trying desperately to kill off any and all windfarms and other renewable energy sources.

It's meant to keep us dependent on oil. And they mean to ensure that Putin can go back to selling oil and funding his attacks on Ukraine and beyond.

Sure, they fix their mouths to claim to believe what they're doing is good for their base -- but they've never believed it. It's a mistake to think they believe what they say, any time.

Taran Rampersad 1d ago

@jzb @nuwagaba2 @Siroj42 This is something I have been considering too.

Not dumb. Clever in ways that have evolved from an incentive system that rewards it.

Not smart.

Nu Modular 1d ago

@jzb It's an easy scale from Divide and Conquer, to Capitalist grift.

Glen T, heated, not stirred 17h ago

@jzb @nuwagaba2 @Siroj42 Hmm.

Look at the Signal group chat provided to The Atlantic. That had no audience. JD Vance was more anti-Nato than in public.

Camille Winds Down 16h ago

@jzb
In their effort to regain a fantastical White Christian Past, they seem to have allowed the ahistorical version of world events to take root and drive policy decisions.

Just last week, Trump sang the praises of Churchill to the Taoiseach of Ireland and then asked the Japanese PM why they didn't coordinate with us on Pearl Harbor. They seem to all repeat the "47 years" bit about Iran without a clear understanding of what preceded those 47 and why.
@nuwagaba2 @Siroj42

Camille Winds Down 16h ago

@jzb
Which is to say: if you are too busy revising history, you will fail to learn from it.
@nuwagaba2 @Siroj42

Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"16h ago

@jzb @nuwagaba2 @Siroj42
Bingo…

neodog_floof_devil

@jzb @nuwagaba2 @Siroj42

I'm sorry Joe but while you definetely know what's bad (Trump doing war) I think you misunderstand the patterns that lead to this.

The Iran war is not happening because of some russian manipulation, and the same goes for the coup in Venezuela. What the american administration is doing is in the interests of the american ruling class and its long term policy to encircle adversaries, make Europe dependant on american energy, control as many as possible of the alternative sources of oil, keep countries running on oil and gas (as you said), and the chief imperialist goal of being able to violently export capital to underdeveloped nations. Nothing about this is knew, american imperialism has been a thing arguably since the inception of the States.

It's not a Trump thing, it's not even a Republican thing, Iran has been sanctioned for over 40 years, Cuba for over 60, Venezuela for over 20. The two parties of the USA are both parties of the ruling class and both enact imperialist foreign policy.

This happens to be in Russia's interest insofar as the USA's foreign policy is self-destructive, which it is, but this does not prove control, it just proves that the motive behind the foreign policy is unchanged and the USA's capabilities to force itself have declined. I could argue that if Russia controlled Trump then he wouldn't be pressuring NATO to triple their war budgets and keep the war going, but the thing with these theories is they're hard to disprove if you're willing to steelman them (which I hope you're not).

What I agree with you here is this makes Trump's backers very very happy. It's just that those backers are the american ruling class which mostly competes with the russian one, and it's not in the interest of the american ruling class to remove sanctions on Russia, or to end the Ukraine war, hence the administration is not doing these things.

See: oil prices are being raised to the moon despite the fact that the reserves are there for months.

I leave with this interesting report on european LNG imports, in particular the "Europe monthly import of US LNG [by year]" section, for understanding why the USA is actually quite happy about the Ukraine war and how USAn interests in Ukraine are conflicting with russian interests. ieefa.org/european-lng-tracker#cat4-2

European LNG Tracker

IEEFA’s European LNG Tracker is an interactive data set to visualise Europe’s LNG infrastructure, demand and capacity outlook, and import and export flows. (Updated: October 2025)

Nuwagaba Gift 14h ago

@lainz
When someone gets to know about this, it's clear that we have been blinded for a very long period of time . Despite all the revolutions from the working class right from the 1789 French revolution, it has been clear that equality will never be a reality in this world and that the ruling class always find their way to the top and oppress those below them . If another country was as powerful as USA , would it have behaved like the US?

@cwebber I'd been wondering if they don't actually care if Copyright becomes obsolete. Maybe they'd even encourage it.
So long as they can replace it for themselves with enforcement of whatever Terms of Service.
ToS rather than Copyright seems to have been a trend already. For them it might be a logical conclusion?

Taran Rampersad 1d ago

@ekes @cwebber They're going to have to fight Mickey and his gang.

Definitely unstable times.

Feral 3D 1d ago

@cwebber donyou think this age verification crap has anything to do with that? I feel like they are gearing up to 'protect children' and use this overreach to control the market and prevent open source models from becoming widely accepted.

Taran Rampersad 1d ago

@Feral_3D @cwebber I would definitely link it to surveillance.

Surveillance->Ai->Intention->Steering.
Surveillainice->AI->Intention->$$$

Feral 3D 1d ago

@knowprose @cwebber I don't understand thar. What do you mean?

aburka 🫣22h ago

@cwebber I'm sure they'll graciously grant us a license to use that copyrighted slop in our apps.

What's that, you cancelled your Claude Pro Max subscription because we tripled the price? Sorry not sorry, we'll have to repossess your code.