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

submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 minutes 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.