California's state senate is considering SB1047, a bill to regulate AI. Since OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are all in California, this would affect most of the industry. If the California state senate passed a bill saying that the sky was blue, I would start considering whether it might be green, or colorless, or maybe not exist at all. And people on Twitter have been saying that this bill would ban open-source AI - no, all AI! - no, all technology more complicated than a toaster! So I started out skeptical. But Zvi Mowshowitz (summary article in Asterisk, long FAQ on his blog) has looked at it more closely and found: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/asteriskzvi-on-californias-ai-bill
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