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

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 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.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] dnzm@feddit.nl 3 points 20 hours ago

...I have no words.