Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

You're expecting coherent policy from the guy that shut the entire country down for a day, because he's an idiot?

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

Exhibit no. 47475 of their parasite behavior

[quadraturesurfer@lemmy.world]

Had to lookup the penalties since this document just pointed somewhere else:

(a) In General.--Section 206 of the International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) is amended to read as follows:

SEC. 206. PENALTIES.

• (a) Unlawful Acts.--It shall be unlawful for a person to violate,
  attempt to violate, conspire to violate, or cause a violation of any
  license, order, regulation, or prohibition issued under this title.
• (b) Civil Penalty.--A civil penalty may be imposed on any person
  who commits an unlawful act described in subsection (a) in an amount not
  to exceed the greater of--
  • (1) $250,000; or
  • (2) an amount that is twice the amount of the transaction that is the basis of the violation with respect to which the penalty is imposed.
• (c) Criminal Penalty.--A person who willfully commits, willfully
  attempts to commit, or willfully conspires to commit, or aids or abets
  in the commission of, an unlawful act described in subsection (a) shall,
  upon conviction, be fined not more than $1,000,000, or if a natural
  person, may be imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both.''.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-110publ96/html/PLAW-110publ96.htm

[mutilationwave@lemmy.world]

The generation that can't figure out their TV remote is attempting to legislate on cutting edge technology. Fucking series of tubes all over again. It never stopped though really.

[chivera@lemmy.world]

Continue

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

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.

[qbertreynolds@sh.itjust.works]

Deleting CDC data is effectively the same thing.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

That number is way too low.

[teamassimilation@infosec.pub]

• Please Mr. Tramp ban Chinese AIs! They caused our stock to fall!
• Suck my dick first.
• … I am important… I’m creating shareholder value…
• You’re improving. Don’t forget the orange spray when you finish.

[corkyskog@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[tikiporch@lemmy.world]

Yeah, we should only be allowed to download their social media apps?

[forrcaho@lemmy.world]

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 ...

[telorand@reddthat.com]

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 will be eventually struck down for being overbroad.

[pregnenolone@lemmy.world]

Oh what’s that? Yeah that’s Barbara Streisand’s house

[evotech@lemmy.world]

https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

Very simple with ollama

[alecsadler@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

So if I download this and somehow there is no longer a way to access the model online this will still work? I'm just a bit confused because I read a couple things that made it seem like even though the model is running locally it still needs a connection for some reason, if that isn't true I'm sorry for the dumb question.

[evotech@lemmy.world]

On first run it downloads the model, then you just run it locally

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

In other news, Chinese food restaurants will serve only burgers and fries and call themselves Freedom food restaurants.

[yarharsuperstar@lemmy.world]

Thank you, that answers my question exactly.