Artificial Stupidity

Are there currently any government contracts put at risk by this? I didn't think that the feds were major spenders on AI. And is Trump aware that Musk is currently the one man trying to provide the sort of AI that Trump wants?

Honestly this order seems empty. Does the government even have a need for general LLMs? Why would they need an AI to answer simple questions?

As much as I dislike Trump, this shouldn't impact any AI available to the general public.

Well, in practice, no.

Do you think any corporation is going to bother making a separate model for government contracts versus any other use? I mean, why would they. So unless you can pony up enough cash to compete with a lucrative government contract (and the fact none of us can is, on fact, the while point), the end result will involve these requirements being adopted by the overwhelming majority of generative AI available on the market.

So in reality, no, this absolutely will not be limited to models purchased by the feds. Frankly, I believe choosing to think otherwise to be dangerously naive.

Does the government even have a need for general LLMs?

Will this stop them from spending our hard earned tax money on it?

They don't, but they think they do.

But anything the US feds contracted them for, like building data centres, they have to comply or they face penalties and have to pay all the costs back.

10 days ago, a week before this was announced, they awarded $200M contracts each to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI

This doesn’t doom the public versions, but they now have a pretty strong incentive to save money and make them comply with the US governments new definition of truth.

Trans people have objectively existed historically and there is scientific evidence trans people are telling the truth. So what now?

Do they call it „Newspeak“ yet or does it take another couple of months until they do?

Damn, the US deteriorated quickly into a total shithole!
Not much left to go until it’s worse than China.

They all got $200M last week

actually Real Stupidity

If promotion of diversity is pervasive and destructive, but LLMs are by definition trained on diverse datasets, are they not by default unpermitted?

Beyond that, the conflation of fact with truth is really...something.

Also how will a historically accurate model explain what happened to black people in the US before 1865 without concepts like systemic racism?

For the white supremacists in charge of the USA, the answer to your last question is that it's forbidden to talk about Black history, and white people did nothing wrong. That is what they mean by historical accuracy. The fact that it's false is irrelevant and unmentionable.

Not sure what you mean about the conflation of fact and truth. They're generally treated as pretty close concepts.

Would you rather our current administration make their decisions by using the lowest bidder LLM, or their own brains?

More facism from Trump. And he won the popular vote. Americans love facism

Okay moving my AI out of the US.

Oh right I don't do AI at all because its trash.

China is fucking kicking ass what are you talking about? We're on track to become Russia -- where nothing works, everyone drinks, and you're fodder for the war machine.

Considering how much they bleed cash regularly, I can see them jumping on the government contract bandwagon quickly.

Well, Elmo was able to turn Grok into a Nazi, so they expect all the others to fall in line.

PSA: stop using corporate hosted LLMs.

And this is one of the best arguments against depending on LLMs. People are outsourcing their thinking to linear algebra machines owned by the wealthy. LLMs are a tool of social control.