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.
Ah yes, the “free market” in action.
We are rotten to the core.
Not me. It’s the rest of you.
These fucking clowns just refuse to learn about how technology works. Fucking morons.
This bill is likely sponsored by Sam Altman himself
The generation that can’t figure out their TV remote is attempting to legislate on cutting edge technology. Fucking series of tubes all over again. It never stopped though really.
The series of tubes is actually a better analogy than what this Bill imagines the internet to be.
You don’t expect this law to count for the people at the top, do you?
LOL. Next they start burning books?
Continue
start?
Deleting CDC data is effectively the same thing.
So rather than build off their successes we’re just gonna put up a blinder and hope they don’t completely leave us in the dust?
You’re expecting coherent policy from the guy that shut the entire country down for a day, because he’s an idiot?
If I have seen further, it is by
standing on the shoulders of giantsblinding everyone else LOL
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.
Oh well. The rest of the world can benefit from Chinese AI models.
Exhibit no. 47475 of their parasite behavior
That number is way too low.
Josh Hawley is a complete waste.
Lol, protectionism for the administration’s fellators.
- 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.
so basically more cenaorship because china?
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.
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
As far as I know they still haven’t forced all government agencies to use AI, which was talked about… So they also have a cash cow there.
Err, DOD is buying into OpenAI to manage the nuclear weapons.
…I have no words.
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 shot?!
Pathetic…
And frankly, it is the internet and model is open source. Get fucked daddy Sam.
In other news, Chinese restaurants will serve only burgers, fries and shakes, and will be called Freedom restaurants.
So, only the rest of the world gets superior technology.
The investors will love that.
I’m not even in to this shit and I’m going to download it right now because fuck those assholes.
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.
Something about https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 , or at least that’s the model that everyone’s been talking about recently. It looks like it’d be half a terabyte to clone the entire repo though, and I don’t know how to use it either …
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.
https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1
Very simple with ollama
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.
On first run it downloads the model, then you just run it locally
So if I get a new computer in a few months it will no loner work. Maybe we can VPN into Sweden?
I assume you know you can transfer files from one pc to a other?
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.
Thank you, that answers my question exactly.
Technically this isn’t the case. These are Deepseek distilled with Qwen and Llama depending on the weight, so they are no longer Deepseek.
@YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world this is the official, extremely large, one. https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Well yes, it does specifically say so in the link. There’s also one with the full model in what I linked
Oh nice, when Ollama first had this up I don’t think the 671b model was there. I stand corrected on that!
This country is so cooked.
Always has been.
bang.
Had to lookup the penalties since this document just pointed somewhere else:
(a) In General.–Section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) is amended to read as follows:
SEC. 206. PENALTIES.
- (a) Unlawful Acts.–It shall be unlawful for a person to violate, attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any license, order, regulation, or prohibition issued under this title.
- (b) Civil Penalty.–A civil penalty may be imposed on any person
who commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) in an amount not
to exceed the greater of–
- (1) $250,000; or
- (2) an amount that is twice the amount of the transaction that is the basis of the violation with respect to which the penalty is imposed.
- © Criminal Penalty.–A person who willfully commits, willfully attempts to commit, or willfully conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of, an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.‘’.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-110publ96/html/PLAW-110publ96.htm
