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Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. (www.hawley.senate.gov)
submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by Grimy to c/technology
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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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[–] cm0002 16 points 10 hours ago (1 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

As far as I know they still haven't forced all government agencies to use AI, which was talked about... So they also have a cash cow there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Err, DOD is buying into OpenAI to manage the nuclear weapons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

...I have no words.