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.

  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    7 hours ago

    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.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 hours ago

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

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    10 hours 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
      7·
      9 hours 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
          2·
          7 hours 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.

        • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          8 hours 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.

  • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    9 hours ago

    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

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    36·
    11 hours 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.

    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
      61·
      9 hours 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.
  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    111·
    9 hours 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.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
    14·
    11 hours 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
      15·
      10 hours 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