Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.

[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.

[vitorobles@lemmy.today]

We'll call it FREEDOM FOOD. Please, pass the FREEDOM beef chow fun, and the AMERICAN Fortune cookies, and BLUE EAGLE AR-15 green tea.

[gork@lemm.ee]

bald eagle sheds a single tear

[persnickitypenguin@lemm.ee]

So if I get a new computer in a few months it will no loner work. Maybe we can VPN into Sweden?

[persnickitypenguin@lemm.ee]

This bill is likely sponsored by Sam Altman himself

[persnickitypenguin@lemm.ee]

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

[duke_nukem_1990@feddit.org]

You don't expect this law to count for the people at the top, do you?

[dnzm@feddit.nl]

...I have no words.

[thebananaking@lemmy.world]

So, only the rest of the world gets superior technology.

The investors will love that.

[lh0ezvt@sh.itjust.works]

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.

[hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I assume you know you can transfer files from one pc to a other?

[risingswell@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Pretty sure fortune cookies are American anyway? Pretty sure they aren't chinese