As Congress races to pass President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” it’s also sprinting to placate the many haters of the bill’s “AI moratorium” provision which originally required a 10-year pause on state AI regulations. Sunday night, Senator Marsha Blackburn and Senator Ted Cruz announced a new version of the AI moratorium, knocking the pause from a full decade down to five years and adding a variety of carve-outs. But after critics attacked the watered-down version of the bill as a “get-out-of-jail-free card” for Big Tech, Blackburn reversed course Monday evening. “This provision could allow Big Tech to continue to exploit kids, creators, and conservatives. Her proposed AI provision included an exemption for this kind of law, which expands the legal right to protect one’s likeness from commercial exploitation.