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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.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm surprised usually Hawley is pro running

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

This is running. It's running away from competition.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

So, only the rest of the world gets superior technology.

The investors will love that.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Exhibit no. 47475 of their parasite behavior

[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

That number is way too low.

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Torrenting is going to be wild in 2025.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

At least until they decide to Make it illegal for ISPs to allow you to torrent.

And yes I hear all the people saying can't, won't, laws, to which I say those things are all tenuous at best at the moment.

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[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Don't fork them, because when a project get taken down, so do all the forks. Download it, and manually create a new repo.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lol, protectionism for the administration's fellators.

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[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day 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.
  • (c) 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

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Just try to stop me. Or anyone for that matter.

The "does it connect to the wifi" mfers came up with this one I'm sure.

[–] artificialfish@programming.dev 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly.

We will just put Trump porn on the whitehouse.gov site to show you how little control America has over its digital economy.

[–] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

Hey deepseek. Remake Lemon Party but with Trump, Vance, and Elon.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (4 children)

What next? Outlaw chinese food?

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

A succulent Chinese meal!?

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

We'll call it FREEDOM FOOD. Please, pass the FREEDOM beef chow fun, and the AMERICAN Fortune cookies, and BALD EAGLE AR-15 green tea.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago

ABSOLUTELY NO COMPETITION ALLOWED.

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[–] JOMusic@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

There's always the worst possible option: they're true believers. They genuinely believe the rest of the world is freeloading on the US, and that (atlas) shrugging them off will make everyone else collapse.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This country is so cooked.

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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Josh Hawley is a complete waste.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

This is designed to stop businesses to use locally deployed models and be forced to deploy cloud services by any of the cocksuckers that sat frontlins in the inauguration.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

LOL. Next they start burning books?

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago
[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

Deleting CDC data is effectively the same thing.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago
[–] dan@upvote.au 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] Korkki@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

PROHIBITIONS ON IMPORT AND EXPORT

They are just doing protectionism for Meta and OpenAI monopoly and shooting rest of the american economy in the foot by doing it. Anybody who isn't openAI one of these tech giants will have to use less effective american gen-AIs, that they can't self host for free for much less cost provided that they have servers. This Just to protect companies like openAI, that relied on the idea that people will have to come to them, so they can set the prize and still harvest their data and even insert all the right political narratives into the model, like what happened with chatgpt and palestine. All of this because few weeks ago good AI was supposed to super hard and scarce and now it isn't.

Can they even enforce this is the question? Will ISP's be forced to ban the deepseek site? Will they criminalize people self hosting deepseek on their home servers? Still that 180 days is just a call to download deepseek and modify it a little bit as it not to be chinese anymore and start hosting it as some alternative.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993

50 States, 50 Protests, 1day

Feb 5 @ your downtown.

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