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.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months 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

  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    3 months ago

    Bad chinaman used the free market to hurt american oligarchs so they got their regime whores in congress to restrict MY access to the good shot?!

    Pathetic…

    And frankly, it is the internet and model is open source. Get fucked daddy Sam.

  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Had to lookup the penalties since this document just pointed somewhere else:

    (a) In General.–Section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) is amended to read as follows:

    SEC. 206. PENALTIES.

    • (a) Unlawful Acts.–It shall be unlawful for a person to violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any license, order, regulation, or prohibition issued under this title.
    • (b) Civil Penalty.–A civil penalty may be imposed on any person who commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) in an amount not to exceed the greater of–
      • (1) $250,000; or
      • (2) an amount that is twice the amount of the transaction that is the basis of the violation with respect to which the penalty is imposed.
    • © Criminal Penalty.–A person who willfully commits, willfully attempts to commit, or willfully conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.‘’.

    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-110publ96/html/PLAW-110publ96.htm

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

    • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Can someone explain briefly what I need to download that might not be available if this comes to pass? Like I did some searching and I saw stuff about Ollama but it wasn’t completely clear if that would be affected by this.

        • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Doesn’t matter. People in the US already have the model, so sharing it within the US wouldn’t be illegal, and the law would only apply to anything “imported” 180 days after the law is passed (if it’s passed at all).

          Also, how “importing” is defined will matter for any future legal arguments, and I would imagine this law would eventually be struck down for being overbroad.

          • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Well yes, it does specifically say so in the link. There’s also one with the full model in what I linked

            • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Oh nice, when Ollama first had this up I don’t think the 671b model was there. I stand corrected on that!

        • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          So if I download this and somehow there is no longer a way to access the model online this will still work? I’m just a bit confused because I read a couple things that made it seem like even though the model is running locally it still needs a connection for some reason, if that isn’t true I’m sorry for the dumb question.

              • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                3 months ago

                Jeeez, just copy the ollama’s directory (something like .ollama) from user’s dir to wherever. You can check and find the files inside. I find the published 14b really useful, it’s ten GB that think and reason in english.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 months 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.

      • wanderingmagus@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Doesn’t a VPN already circumvent this? ISPs already send out copyright violation emails if you torrent the wrong thing, but not if you do it through a VPN.

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          3 months ago

          From a Sony legal perspective, yes.

          When Big Brother decides to force ISPs to tamp it down, they’ll do stuff like set limits on unidentifiable traffic, set caps just above reasonable streaming levels.

          When there’s no freedom of speech, no right to be innocent, you can tell who’s torrenting, especially if you don’t have to be 100% right to kick them off your network.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

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

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

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