Putin Signs Law Requiring AI to Follow "Spiritual Values"
Vladimir Putin just legalized state-approved algorithms in Russia. Because nothing says cutting-edge technological progress like forcing a neural network to pass a morality test before it can generate a single line of code.
The new federal law regulates any neural network with at least one billion parameters. Under these rules, neural networks are officially split into "sovereign" and "national" models. Sovereign algorithms must be owned entirely by Russian companies, hosted strictly inside local data centers, and remain fully reproducible without outside help.
National models get a little extra leeway by incorporating open-source foreign components. However, both categories must strictly comply with official traditional spiritual and moral values, proving that even mathematical vectors need a proper upbringing in Russia. State security services will inspect the access rules before any network gets to learn.
To feed these approved models, developers will receive direct access to federal and regional state databases. Meanwhile, websites attracting over half a million daily visitors are forced to let users label any AI-generated media to keep synthetic hallucinations under control.
Regarding intellectual property, scraping copyrighted materials for pattern recognition is officially deemed non-infringing as long as the source was legally accessible. Service operators simply have to notify users about content ownership conditions and export options.
Russian bureaucracy has officially managed to mandate morality for linear algebra, ensuring that code respects tradition. Watching an artificial intelligence attempt to navigate state surveillance while maintaining spiritual purity will certainly set a fascinating precedent for software engineering.
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