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.

Based on the attempts we've seen at censoring AI output so far, there doesn't seem to me to be a way to actually do this without building a new model with pre-censored training data.

Sure they can tune models, but even "MechaHitler" Grok was still giving some "woke" answers on occasion. I don't see how this doesn't either destroy AI's "usefulness" (not that there's any usefulness there to begin with) or cost so much to implement that investors pull out because none of the AI companies are profitable, and throwing billions more to sift through and filter the training data pushes profitability even further away (if censoring all the training data is even possible at all).

Executive orders aren't laws de jure, but they are laws de facto.

They are not laws whatsoever. They aren't anything more but words on a paper. You can't take it to court and argue that you are complying with an executive order and HAVE to. That's why they keep losing all of these lawsuits based on EO's. You can't just make some shit up and have it fly in court.

You're thinking of FreeDUMB, where you're allowed to believe whatever you want. But Trump has to approve the position first (as stated) and it has to be the opposite of whatever the data/proof clearly shows. It's like the Wish.com version of Freedom~TM~, but that's geared more toward Teaparty Gun Nuts and Libertarian Potheads.

Edit: Huge caveat I forgot about. Joe Rogan also has the ability to dictate FreeDUMB positions. So long as the guest making the claim (1) has no degrees and (2) they're being suppressed by The Establishment. Also, Jamie has to be able to Google some random website that agrees with them in under 25 seconds.