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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] 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

This guy might get a bill through that bans Chinese AI stuff, though I think that enforcement is gonna be a pain, but as per the text, this is banning all Chinese intellectual property, AI or not. That's a non-starter; it's not going to go anywhere in Congress. Like, you couldn't even identify all instances of Chinese intellectual property if you wanted to do so.

EDIT: Okay, they define the phrase elsewhere to specifically be "technology or intellectual property that could be used to contribute to artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence capabilities", which is somewhat-narrower but still not going anywhere, because pretty much any form of intellectual property meets that bar; you can train an AI on whatever to improve its capabilities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

You think that the bill being completely moronic is a reason congress wouldn’t pass it? Oh sweet summer child…