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Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. (www.hawley.senate.gov)

submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25011462

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Can you prevent someone from setting up local instances of Deepseek? It's open source. How would this define Chinese models?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Nobody cares about you and your cheap AI-generated tentacle porn. The point here is at entreprise-level. Businesses will be legally locked down with expensive US vendors, it's all that matters.

Infuriating thing above all that cretin protectionism is that pro use of AI stuff will consume a planet-destroying ~~10~~ 30 times as much energy than needed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

This model would not exist without the work done by OpenAI though, given that the Chinese company secretly used ChatGPT to train it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago

Every AI model has been incestuously training off every other AI model for years. OpenAI has done it just as much as everyone else. They're just throwing a tantrum about it now because they're butthurt that a Chinese company beat them on the cheap, and they're trying to save face.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

It would still have happened at some point, chatgpt is not the only AI. I hate we called it AI.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago

They can criminalize downloading it for example.