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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

8 words: hilary clinton ai voice talking about ball sucking

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago

Capitalism truly thrives on competition and innovation

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised usually Hawley is pro running

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

50 States, 50 Protests, 1day

Feb 5 @ your downtown.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 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.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

US is getting very desperate

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days 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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Torrenting is going to be wild in 2025.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

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

The investors will love that.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 days ago

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

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