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California Passes Backdoor Bill to Control the 3D Printing Hobby and Spy on Small Designers, Prototypers, and Hobbyists (www.techspot.com)
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This first bill allows the state of California to regulate and oversee all 3D prints in the name of public safety.

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[โ€“] semperverus@lemmy.world -4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You're gonna hate this, but... AI can literally do it, and for the large models it's terrifying how accurate they are. You will argue that your little ESP32 powered reprap or klipper or whatever printer can't handle it, to which regulators will go ok then, either the printer has to call out to a service with an http request to upload the gcode every time it wants to print anything, or your slicer has to do it (and we dont care that it's open source, it's illegal to operate if it doesnt make the call and you're getting fines or jail time if you get caught).

This is what AI was built for ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ

[โ€“] MrQuallzin@pie.eyeofthestorm.place 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Even AI can't do this. It is an impossibility. AI might be able to make the shape, but it will NEVER be able to interpret the intent of that shape. It will never know if a cylinder is meant for a gun or for a rolling pin. It will never know if I'm making a trigger for a gun or a replacement trigger for my hot glue gun.

[โ€“] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

But it CAN force your printer not to print that replacement hot glue gun trigger. After all, there's nothing in the law that says that this software has to allow non-gun related 3D printing. The simplest way to be in compliance with this law is to simply prevent all print jobs

[โ€“] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

You understand that this makes it impossible to implement right? It's to vauge and will damage profitability of large companies, meaning courts will gut or kill this shit.