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.

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    Good luck trying to ban OSS next, which would criminalize basically everyone who’s ever used a browser that isn’t IE, everyone who’s ever used an Android phone or a Chromebook, everyone who’s ever used any modern audio or video codec as the bulk of those are OSS too, and would destroy both Big Data and the Cloud, both of which are primarily Linux-based, and send the US back to the web’s dark ages, as in going back to when BBSes were popular.

    Also, since this bill punishes people by making them spend most of their lives in prison, how are they going to lock up everyone who’s ever used Chromium or Firefox browsers, for example, or everyone who’s ever used Android or ChromeOS, which is most of the country’s population at this point, should that ban extend to a general OSS ban? (this part was originally a reply but I moved it to the main post)

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Criminalizing something broadly isn’t usually done with the intention of going after everyone who does it, it’s so when they do single out someone they can charge them even if they haven’t actually caught them doing anything wrong (besides the thing everybody does).

      See also: the way laws about taxes and drugs are often enforced.

    • tiddy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      They’re american, they’d just pick one rich guy to ‘own’ all Foss projects and make it freenium within a year

      • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Good luck with that too, especially as GPL3 has a clause specifically forbidding tivoization built into it.

        The type of thing RH is doing with the RHEL EULA in order to attempt to circumvent GPL2 protections? Yeah, that wouldn’t fly under GPL3.

        • tiddy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Til a judge ‘interprets’ that as being specifically about a company named TiVo or invalidates it in the supreme court.

          Yk back in my day it was even unthinkable to have a president decide your gender for you, the precedent already being created is insane.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    17·
    4 days ago

    How would they even attempt to implement this? Will the US end up with a Great Firewall like China has? Even if Chinese models are delisted from Hugging Face (since Hugging Face is a US company and has to follow US law), they could just be hosted elsewhere.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      4 days ago

      Most likely, they’ll just enforce it against businesses using it since they’re the cash cow as far as OpenAI, meta et all are concerned

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    122·
    4 days 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 shit?!

    Pathetic…

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

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    97·
    4 days 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
      13·
      4 days 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.

        • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          4 days 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
                5·
                4 days 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.

        • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
          7·
          4 days 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.

        • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          Run it using ollama in a terminal (like ollama run model_name), ask it a question.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    69·
    4 days ago

    Ah, the supporters of the free market strike again. No competition allowed, Sam Altman and his American billionaire peers are entitled to all the money.

  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    59·
    4 days 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.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      401·
      4 days ago

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

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Yes, yes, burn it all. Make the people very very angry. It takes a lot to engage a Luddite and we need them all.

    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
      71·
      4 days ago
      • Please Mr. Tramp ban Chinese AIs! They caused our stock to fall!
      • Suck my dick first.
      • … I am important… I’m creating shareholder value…
      • You’re improving. Don’t forget the orange spray when you finish.
  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    4 days ago

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

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      That’s why I consider that tagline, ‘The Land of the Free,’ to be the failed punchline of a bad joke now. It hasn’t meant anything since before Reagan took office at least.

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      People there have chosen that by voting republican. I mean, he told what he planned to do and got voted for anyway…

      Freedom, but only for rich, white douchebags

        • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          The benefit of being an early adopter is my folder full of Donald Trump/Congressional Republicans suckin’ and fuckin’ before all of the fun models got taken down from easy access.