US Plans to Sanction Chinese AI Firms Like DeepSeek Over Alleged Model Distillation

US House Republican lawmakers have proposed a bill to sanction Chinese AI firms, accusing them of using adversarial distillation to copy US AI model capabilities. ThisThis technique technique trains new models by querying mature ones on a large scale, which is low-cost but unauthorized and violates service terms.

OpenAI and other companies confirmed that DeepSeek and others had unauthorized access to ChatGPT and other models, and bypassed countermeasures. The bill is expected to be reviewed next week; if passed, relevant firms may be added to the entity list and face economic sanctions.