Are you claiming there will be a fee?
Are you claiming there will be a fee?
Universities: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/29/nx-s1-5559293/trump-settlemen...
Companies: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/extortionary-intel-stake-s...
Law firms: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-law-firms--deals-wi...
Media: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/business/media/paramount-...
Why would AI companies be any different?
> Are you claiming there will be a fee?
I'd be more concerned with "your model can't be too woke" regulatory scenarios.
Honestly that's exactly where my mind went. We already see the current administration trying to censor free speech (e.g. Jimmy Kimmel, blocking/restricting press access to the White House unless you are pro-Trump).
I'm afraid of the potential to move in the direction of what we see in China where queries to LLMs referencing things like Tianenmen Square are censored (at best).
Regardless: "...an increasing number of travelers report being questioned about legally protected online speech when crossing the border."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/travel/airport-border-pho...
Previously you could not post about certain subjects around covid, ivermectin, anything not in line with woke ideology, political scandals. Accounts would be banned. Communities were shut down on Reddit. High profile figures were banned from Twitter. Now you can post whatever you like on most of these platforms. That's not just me who thinks that by the way, it's a widely discussed thing. Zuckerberg even cited government pressure around content suppression and censorship. Do you disagree?
One of Musk's first acts as owner was to do that. https://x.com/elonjet (and the journalists reporting on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...)
(After previously explicitly promising not to, citing… freedom of speech! https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1589414958508691456)
Bunch more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspensions_on_X#2023
> anything not in line with woke ideology
How did so many Republican politicians survive on there?!
> Now you can post whatever you like on most of these platforms.
As long as it isn't the word "cisgender". https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/elon-musk-free-speec...
Or a link to Mastodon. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63999452
> Zuckerberg even cited government pressure around content suppression and censorship.
To curry favor with the new admin, sure.
> Accounts would be banned. Communities were shut down on Reddit.
This happens regularly, today. https://www.reddit.com/r/BannedSubs/
We are already there.
"Canva admits its AI tool removed 'Palestine' from designs: https://gizmodo.com/canva-admits-its-ai-tool-removed-palesti...
"Bothsidesism" posits that the two sides are broadly similar. The last few years have debunked that concept pretty conclusively.
As it was with "campus protests violate free speech!" from the folks who immediately turned around and banned voluntary diversity programs at universities.
As it was with "Twitter bans violate free speech" from the folks who bought it and banned @elonjet and the word cisgender.
For sake of argument, let’s assume this is true. Those rules are still structured as laws, with boundaries and legal recourse. The precedent being set, that the President gets “voluntary” deference from private companies, is un-American and will be abused by the left.
or i just don't understand what you're saying
You'd be calling the First Amendment woke if we proposed it now.
the outmost funny thing to me glancing at this from the sidelines (I stopped following news and am generally largely disconnected from “politics”) is that people that are buying the “woke” garbage are not realizing they voted for the most woke there is. entire current administration is DEI hires (this is literal, every single person working is DEI hire), cancel culture is raging, if they could they would cancel 50% of the population (this is especially funny to me, shows you how “small” people are), you got billions of dollars literally being stolen in broad daylight while bitching about nancy pelosi, you got two president’s sons pillaging the country while bitching about hunter’s laptop… so fascinating to watch america slowly disintegrate into what has become
I agree with the rest, sure.
Health codes and safety rules are woke, yes. I would have thought that as given. Debates over where you draw the line are absolutely a matter of wokeness.
The way freedom of expression is regulated today is generally woke. The WPFI is insanely woke.
They, at times, "[limit] a business's ability to exist because they can't afford to accommodate a small percentage of the population".
> Health codes and safety rules are woke, yes.
I take it you never read the parable of the boy who cried wolf.
i don't begin to understand either of these points
fwiw i'm woke, happy to be woke, encourage wokeness
Well, that's a first for me.
Alternate theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023653
This is offensive in how trite it is