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.

  • RangerJosey@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    54 minutes ago

    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.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!! \s

    Seriously tho it’s a bummer to see how many people here promote all this horseshit.

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    7 hours ago

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

  • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    6 hours ago

    Being open weights, if I, resident of Ijustmadeitupista n take it and make a very slight tweak, would it be OK for this rule?

    And, if my pal from China takes a US open model and tweaks it to criticize CCP, will it be banned?

    I honestly think politicians should think just a bit before trying to legislate things they clearly don’t understand.

  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    I’d like to point out that it is only one single proposal. If this does not get shut down, then it is time to be worried. But for now, it might just be one glue-sniffing Congressperson sniffing the wrong kind of glue one morning.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    201·
    8 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?

    • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      the law isn’t meant to bar you from downloading it. it’s meant to prevent use in a business setting

  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    44·
    10 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.