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Re:US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek by rsynnott on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:55AM (#42930822)
> the importation into the United States of artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence technology or intellectual proprietary developed or produced in the People’s Republic of China

... That seems _absurdly_ broad; would arguably hit open source software, academic papers, patents... Like, taken at face value, this would mean "no longer do AI stuff in the US _at all_"; it would be impossible to do anything much without risking violating this.

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Re:US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek by ijk on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:09PM (#42935337)
That pretty much sums up the objection from EFF: as written, it would ban both publishing research and reading research for pretty much all of AI.

It's unlikely that this will ever get out of committee, of course.

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