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.

  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    8 hours 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
      8·
      6 hours ago

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

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    5 hours ago

    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?

  • JOMusic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    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.

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

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

  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    26·
    10 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
    18·
    10 hours ago

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

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    13 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
      9·
      11 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
          5·
          10 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.

              • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                7 hours 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.

        • zecg@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

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

        • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
          3·
          11 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
    27·
    12 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
    43·
    13 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.