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.

  • @just_another_person
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    7 days ago

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

    • @MutilationWave
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      427 days 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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        24 days ago

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

    • 🦄🦄🦄
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      76 days ago

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

    • DFX4509B
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      6 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 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

  • @db2
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    987 days ago

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

    • @YarHarSuperstar
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      137 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.

          • @Evotech
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            16 days 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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              26 days ago

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

        • @YarHarSuperstar
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          67 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.

          • @Evotech
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            87 days ago

            On first run it downloads the model, then you just run it locally

            • @[email protected]
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              -26 days ago

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

              • @zecg
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                56 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.

      • @forrcaho
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        97 days ago

        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 …

        • @[email protected]
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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.

        • @zecg
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          16 days ago

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

    • @nutsack
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      16 days ago

      deleted by creator

  • @iAvicenna
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    536 days ago

    Capitalism truly thrives on competition and innovation

  • @[email protected]
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    596 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
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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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        16 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.

  • @Pregnenolone
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    677 days ago

    Oh what’s that? Yeah that’s Barbara Streisand’s house

  • @SoftestSapphic
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    336 days ago

    Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

  • @ByteJunk
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    456 days ago

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

    • katy ✨
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      226 days ago

      I don’t even like ai but this just makes me want to download Deepseek as much as I can

      • @nutsack
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        -106 days ago

        Yes, that will show them for sure

  • @[email protected]
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    7 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.

    Oh well. The rest of the world can benefit from Chinese AI models.

  • @Eddbopkins
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    135 days ago

    That doesn’t sound like a free market to me.

    • @Tudsamfa
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      126 days ago

      The right to free speak can be compromised if it interferes with other, more important rights…

      … like the right of shareholders to make money.

    • DFX4509B
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      Free speech and expression is one of the many previously-thought-to-be-inalienable rights that are in the current administration’s crosshairs. If I could flee this country for, say, the Netherlands, I’d do so in a heartbeat, unfortunately I can’t.

  • @daddy32
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    356 days ago

    One word: pathetic.

    • @nutsack
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      126 days ago

      8 words: hilary clinton ai voice talking about ball sucking

        • ivanafterall ☑️
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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.

  • @A_A
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    216 days ago

    China : Discovers Anti-gravity
    USA : Law preventing study of anti-gravity

  • @Treczoks
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    276 days ago

    They are afraid. Very afraid. Good.