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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] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Streisand Effect engage!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Not really, given the media frenzy surrounding this model.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I lost interest enough to delete the models I had before and this headline made me look into deepseek.

EDIT: Not quite the Streisand Effect considering I already knew about it, but still an unintended source of pressure. Like someone stockpiling before a ban of something, even if they weren't too avid about it before. I've had a similar thought when it comes to taking down free streaming sites.

Though this seems to have traded compute for data, so I don't have the VRAM for it... even running through RAM, I don't feel like downloading a lesser version with my slow-ish internet.