California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business

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• > The required technology is not possible - 3D printers read code, not intent; they cannot tell what a shape is for.

  "Anthropic announces Project Disarm, a new model designed for 3d printer manufacturers to quickly infer whether the intent of an stl file is a weapon. The printer first submits the job to the cloud, and only after it's approved will it print."

  Not that I want this future, just that I can imagine it.

  umvi 2h ago

• If that becomes current law I don’t want to ever hear about Europe being over-regulated compared to the US…

  dgellow 2h ago

• I tried to photo copy a dollar bill when I was a kid on a dinky inkjet printer. It printed half way then spit out something about counterfeit prevention. I scanned the bill, printed the top half, fed the paper back in, and printed the bottom half. This can only actually stop the completely unmotivated.

  deckar01 2h ago

• Louis Rossman believes these bills are partly funded/lobbied for by Bloomberg.

  https://youtu.be/E1B2cWEaWDw?is=xwpLZoyVSi6psztQ

  denverllc 1h ago

• Roll call from the Assembly vote: https://legiscan.com/CA/rollcall/AB2047/id/1702219

  jshmrsn 2h ago

• NY is pushing the same sort of stuff. The question to ask is how many people are actually being killed with 3D printed weapons? I don't have that info, but I would guess they are statistical outliers and would have been replaced by other homemade weapons if not available. Politicians love to "fix" problems that aren't really problems in the first place.

  giantg2 1h ago

• Yeah you. Better get your printer air gapped because they are going to brick it in the name of getting re-elected

  androiddrew 2h ago

• If you're in San Francisco, note that Catherine Stefani and Matt Haney both voted for this ridiculous bill.

  Roll call: https://legiscan.com/CA/rollcall/AB2047/id/1702219

  tedd4u 44m ago

• Next they will ban hardware store ? Because you could make a weapon with that pipe

  monax 2h ago

• * Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D)

  * Dr. Darshana R. Patel (D)

  * Tim Grayson (D)

  exabrial 2h ago