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.

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      That’s why I consider that tagline, ‘The Land of the Free,’ to be the failed punchline of a bad joke now. It hasn’t meant anything since before Reagan took office at least.

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      People there have chosen that by voting republican. I mean, he told what he planned to do and got voted for anyway…

      Freedom, but only for rich, white douchebags

  • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    China : Discovers Anti-gravity
    USA : Law preventing study of anti-gravity

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
    14·
    2 days ago

    Good luck trying to ban OSS next, which would criminalize basically everyone who’s ever used a browser that isn’t IE, everyone who’s ever used an Android phone or a Chromebook, everyone who’s ever used any modern audio or video codec as the bulk of those are OSS too, and would destroy both Big Data and the Cloud, both of which are primarily Linux-based, and send the US back to the web’s dark ages, as in going back to when BBSes were popular.

    Also, since this bill punishes people by making them spend most of their lives in prison, how are they going to lock up everyone who’s ever used Chromium or Firefox browsers, for example, or everyone who’s ever used Android or ChromeOS, which is most of the country’s population at this point, should that ban extend to a general OSS ban? (this part was originally a reply but I moved it to the main post)

    • tiddy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      They’re american, they’d just pick one rich guy to ‘own’ all Foss projects and make it freenium within a year

      • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Good luck with that too, especially as GPL3 has a clause specifically forbidding tivoization built into it.

        The type of thing RH is doing with the RHEL EULA in order to attempt to circumvent GPL2 protections? Yeah, that wouldn’t fly under GPL3.

        • tiddy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Til a judge ‘interprets’ that as being specifically about a company named TiVo or invalidates it in the supreme court.

          Yk back in my day it was even unthinkable to have a president decide your gender for you, the precedent already being created is insane.

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Criminalizing something broadly isn’t usually done with the intention of going after everyone who does it, it’s so when they do single out someone they can charge them even if they haven’t actually caught them doing anything wrong (besides the thing everybody does).

      See also: the way laws about taxes and drugs are often enforced.

    • Tudsamfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      The right to free speak can be compromised if it interferes with other, more important rights…

      … like the right of shareholders to make money.

    • DFX4509B@lemmy.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      Free speech and expression is one of the many previously-thought-to-be-inalienable rights that are in the current administration’s crosshairs. If I could flee this country for, say, the Netherlands, I’d do so in a heartbeat, unfortunately I can’t.

  • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    3 days ago

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

        • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          The benefit of being an early adopter is my folder full of Donald Trump/Congressional Republicans suckin’ and fuckin’ before all of the fun models got taken down from easy access.

  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    59·
    3 days 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.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      401·
      3 days ago

      It’s good old “everything is now illegal” law, selective enforcement does the rest. Straight out of the young dictatorship handbook

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yes, yes, burn it all. Make the people very very angry. It takes a lot to engage a Luddite and we need them all.