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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    These fucking clowns just refuse to learn about how technology works. Fucking morons.

    • @[email protected]
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      411 month ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        229 days ago

        The series of tubes is actually a better analogy than what this Bill imagines the internet to be.

    • 🦄🦄🦄
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      71 month ago

      You don’t expect this law to count for the people at the top, do you?

  • @[email protected]
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    951 month ago

    I’m not even in to this shit and I’m going to download it right now because fuck those assholes.

    • @[email protected]
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      121 month 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 month ago

            Well yes, it does specifically say so in the link. There’s also one with the full model in what I linked

            • fmstrat
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              21 month ago

              Oh nice, when Ollama first had this up I don’t think the 671b model was there. I stand corrected on that!

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month 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.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 month ago

              So if I get a new computer in a few months it will no loner work. Maybe we can VPN into Sweden?

              • @[email protected]
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                51 month 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.

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          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.

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    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.

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

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      71 month 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.
  • @[email protected]
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    441 month ago

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

  • @zipzoopaboop
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    391 month ago

    The Land of the free sure likes taking away freedoms and banning stuff

    • DFX4509B
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      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.

      • @zipzoopaboop
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        21 month ago

        I don’t consider it valid so long as conscription exists, but now it’s an utter joke

    • @[email protected]
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      21 month 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

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          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.

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    331 month 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