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Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. (www.hawley.senate.gov)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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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[–] db2 97 points 5 days ago (15 children)

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

[–] YarHarSuperstar 13 points 4 days ago (14 children)

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.

[–] forrcaho 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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 1 points 4 days ago

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

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