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

submitted 3 weeks ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25011462

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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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 7 points 3 weeks ago (25 children)

Well its still not Open Source.

[–] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (24 children)

Is part of the code not available?

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 20 points 3 weeks ago (23 children)

None of the code and training data is available. Its just the usual Huggingface thing, where some weights and parameters are available, nothing else. People repeat DeepSeek (and many other) Ai LLM models being open source, but they aren't.

They even have a Github source code repository at https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 , but its only an image and PDF file and links to download the model on Huggingface (plus optional weights and parameter files, to fine tune it). There is no source code, and no training data available. Also here is an interesting article talking about this issue: Liesenfeld, Andreas, and Mark Dingemanse. “Rethinking open source generative AI: open washing and the EU AI Act.” The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. 2024

[–] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

Damn that sucks it should be open source. Let people fork and optimize it so it uses less electricity as possible.

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