Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.

[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

[zecg@lemmy.world]

Jeeez, just copy the ollama's directory (something like .ollama) from user's dir to wherever. You can check and find the files inside. I find the published 14b really useful, it's ten GB that think and reason in english.

[zecg@lemmy.world]

Run it using ollama in a terminal (like ollama run model_name), ask it a question.

[squid_slime@lemm.ee]

Torrenting is going to be wild in 2025.

[viri4thus@feddit.org]

This is designed to stop businesses to use locally deployed models and be forced to deploy cloud services by any of the cocksuckers that sat frontlins in the inauguration.

[qevlarr@lemmy.world]

It's good old "everything is now illegal" law, selective enforcement does the rest. Straight out of the new dictatorship handbook

[captainbasculin@lemmy.ml]

Government banned Chinese AI?

Step 1: ask a friend from any other country to fork the model (brotip: use magnets for faster acquiring a friend)

Step 2: have your friend rename the AI.

Step 3: now the model is from said country.

Step 4: download the model from said fork.

OpenAI will go bankrupt. US Government will be jelly. Problem?

[jomusic@lemmy.ml]

I was playing this whole thing out in my head, and trying to justify the confidence of Trump and pals with such seemingly stupid moves.
The only thing I can think of is that they believe that the money they will save (steal) from the government cuts, etc, will make up for the huge losses from the tariffs.
And then they would have to believe that their internal AI development is at a point where they can overpower every other nation on earth, and so they don't need those international relations anymore.
I mean, technically every single Tesla in the world is a camera for Elon, and a huge percentage of internet traffic goes through US servers.

But then I think, even if they do have all of these advantages, China seems to be catching up pretty quickly, is allied with over 50% of the planet through BRICS, has protected itself from their technological expansion.
This is without counting that most countries are losing trust with the US.

Either I'm in denial, or it really is just Trump and Elon are being blinded by their overinflated egos.

[coldwater@lemmy.ca]

USA is getting very desperate

[bytejunk@lemmy.world]

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

[lh0ezvt@sh.itjust.works]

I'd like to point out that it is only one single proposal. If this does not get shut down, then it is time to be worried. But for now, it might just be one glue-sniffing Congressperson sniffing the wrong kind of glue one morning.