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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025’’.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITIONS ON IMPORT AND EXPORT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

(a) PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION.—On and after the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the importation into the United States of artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual property developed or produced in the People’s Republic of China is prohibited.

Currently, China has the best open source models in text, video and music generation.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

They are afraid. Very afraid. Good.

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Time to start seeding DeepSeek R1 I guess.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 24 minutes ago

Awesome, so on top of all the other crap, like a economy that is going off a cliff, the US wants to actually get further behind on AI, just so that assman van make a few extra dollars

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

The paste does not go back in the tube....

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I thought software and thus code was protected as free speech?

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 3 points 32 minutes ago

The right to free speak can be compromised if it interferes with other, more important rights...

... like the right of shareholders to make money.

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Just try to stop me. Or anyone for that matter.

The "does it connect to the wifi" mfers came up with this one I'm sure.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!!! \s

Seriously tho it's a bummer to see how many people here promote all this horseshit.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

8 words: hilary clinton ai voice talking about ball sucking

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Alright, now I'm hooked

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 40 points 6 hours ago

Capitalism truly thrives on competition and innovation

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 39 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

So you can't download them, you should run them directly on tencent cloud or something? Smart...

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don't even like ai but this just makes me want to download Deepseek as much as I can

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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 48 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

US is getting very desperate

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 13 points 7 hours ago

Being open weights, if I, resident of Ijustmadeitupista n take it and make a very slight tweak, would it be OK for this rule?

And, if my pal from China takes a US open model and tweaks it to criticize CCP, will it be banned?

I honestly think politicians should think just a bit before trying to legislate things they clearly don't understand.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm surprised usually Hawley is pro running

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 2 points 4 hours ago

This is running. It's running away from competition.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd like to point out that it is only one single proposal. If this does not get shut down, then it is time to be worried. But for now, it might just be one glue-sniffing Congressperson sniffing the wrong kind of glue one morning.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

It is a single proposal but maybe anybody with an extra terabyte sitting around might want to hold on to a copy

[–] mitchty 1 points 8 minutes ago

I already have every version downloaded on my nas, more cause I hate redownloading things and am a pack rat.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 20 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Government banned Chinese AI?

Step 1: ask a friend from any other country to fork the model (brotip: use magnets for faster acquiring a friend)

Step 2: have your friend rename the AI.

Step 3: now the model is from said country.

Step 4: download the model from said fork.

OpenAI will go bankrupt. US Government will be jelly. Problem?

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

the law isn't meant to bar you from downloading it. it's meant to prevent use in a business setting

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 47 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

It is much worse. I hope I am reading it wrong, but:

The term ‘‘technology’’ [...] includes [...] any semiconductor, circuit board, operating system, graphics processing unit, central processing unit, tenor processing unit, field-programmable gate array, random access memory, hard drive, solid-state drive, dataflow architecture, or cloud-computing service, that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, completed, [...] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence [...] and any other hardware, software, equipment, device, component, robotic computer, processor, network [...] that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, [...] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence.

This would mean that importing and exporting literally any piece of IT equipment, from a Ubuntu installer to a RAM chip, is illegal. Good luck & have fun.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 27 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It's good old "everything is now illegal" law, selective enforcement does the rest. Straight out of the young dictatorship handbook

[–] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 35 minutes ago

Yes, yes, burn it all. Make the people very very angry. It takes a lot to engage a Luddite and we need them all.

[–] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I was playing this whole thing out in my head, and trying to justify the confidence of Trump and pals with such seemingly stupid moves. The only thing I can think of is that they believe that the money they will save (steal) from the government cuts, etc, will make up for the huge losses from the tariffs. And then they would have to believe that their internal AI development is at a point where they can overpower every other nation on earth, and so they don't need those international relations anymore. I mean, technically every single Tesla in the world is a camera for Elon, and a huge percentage of internet traffic goes through US servers.

But then I think, even if they do have all of these advantages, China seems to be catching up pretty quickly, is allied with over 50% of the planet through BRICS, has protected itself from their technological expansion. This is not even including that most other countries in the world will probably want to distance themselves from the US if this keeps up.

Either I'm in denial, or it really is just Trump and Elon are being blinded by their overinflated egos.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

There's always the worst possible option: they're true believers. They genuinely believe the rest of the world is freeloading on the US, and that (atlas) shrugging them off will make everyone else collapse.

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Torrenting is going to be wild in 2025.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 33 minutes ago

At least until they decide to Make it illegal for ISPs to allow you to torrent.

And yes I hear all the people saying can't, won't, laws, to which I say those things are all tenuous at best at the moment.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago

So, only the rest of the world gets superior technology.

The investors will love that.

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 60 points 13 hours ago

Oh what’s that? Yeah that’s Barbara Streisand’s house

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993

50 States, 50 Protests, 1day

Feb 5 @ your downtown.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 6 points 9 hours ago

This is designed to stop businesses to use locally deployed models and be forced to deploy cloud services by any of the cocksuckers that sat frontlins in the inauguration.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 31 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Well, now I'm downloading them all and backing them up.

And the ones I can, I'm going to fork on GitHub just so they have my name.

Bring it on.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

Don't fork them, because when a project get taken down, so do all the forks. Download it, and manually create a new repo.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 85 points 16 hours ago (15 children)

I'm not even in to this shit and I'm going to download it right now because fuck those assholes.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 137 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

These fucking clowns just refuse to learn about how technology works. Fucking morons.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

its probably not about that though.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 19 points 11 hours ago

This bill is likely sponsored by Sam Altman himself

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 20 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

In other news, Chinese restaurants will serve only burgers, fries and shakes, and will be called Freedom restaurants.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 57 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Ah, the supporters of the free market strike again. No competition allowed, Sam Altman and his American billionaire peers are entitled to all the money.

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