Sounds like very un-free speech
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How so? You can say whatever you want in America today, as long as the President would agree. How is that not Freedom~TM~?
("Freedom" is a registered trademark of the Trump Organization)
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.
FYI: You can use superscript by using the ^ symbol.
Like this: Free Speech^TM
Or juat use this symbol: ™
I know, but it looks derpier that way
Converters are handy as well, i.e. https://www.madeintext.com/superscript-generator/
I use this all the time for chem shit like typing out "PaCO₂"
I thought he was going to deregulate ai; this seems like regulation to me. Add it to the ~~pile~~ mountain of lies.
Misleading title. Applies only to AI bought by the Feds.
Watch all the AI companies scramble to comply in a quest for government contracts. This will affect everyone who uses American LLMs and generative AI.
It should also open an opportunity for international competition from less censored models.
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.
Considering how much they bleed cash regularly, I can see them jumping on the government contract bandwagon quickly.
They all got $200M last week
To be fair to the executive order (ugh) many of the examples cited are due to well intentioned system prompts that encourage the LLM to actively be diverse.
The example of a female pope or whatever (read this earlier) is an example of that.
Generally speaking the LLMs have left-bias because they're trained on information unlike conservatives, but they aren't necessarily asking the models to be censored
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.
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.
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).
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Because Executive Orders aren’t laws. They’re just guidelines for the executive branch of the federal government, which the POTUS is in charge of. It can’t affect private entities like AI businesses, because that would require an actual act of congress.
Notably, this would potentially determine what kinds of contracts the executive branch was able to make. For instance, maybe the government wants to contract out a LLM instead of building their own. This EO could affect which companies are able to bid on that contract, by adding these same restrictions to any LLM that they provide. But on its own, the EO is just that; an order to the executive branch of the federal government.
Then that contracted AI gets used for customer service at a public facing federal agency.
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Since Trump's brain is stuck in the 90s I'll put this in a fashion that's period appropriate: That's fuckin retarded.
In the nineties? He’s living in the sixties, looking to bring us back to the twenties and thirties.
This dude is just throwing all kinds of ninja smoke on the floor trying to get out from under that Epstein File case. He's already "DOGE'D" everything he just said out of existence. He basically wants Grok everywhere but without saying it because he doesn't want to show Elon he still loves him. But he can't enforce this beyond his own government which he is still crippling at the moment. That white house page is like a giant tweet poster for Orange Chicken Little and serves as a distraction.
You hear that everyone. So for AI to reject your content just put in facts about systemic racism and now you have an AI blocker.
Lolz. OKAY, BOOMER 👌
These dumbfuckingidiots have zero ideas how anything works, and refuse to even try to understand. Also, apparently nobody told grandpa that Executive Orders are not laws, and are less important than a fucking memo.
God damn fucking embarrassment.
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.
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LLMs shall prioritize historical accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivity, and shall acknowledge uncertainty where reliable information is incomplete or contradictory.
This may not go how they think it will. As an aside, for the moment at least, this is only for AI used/procured by the federal government.
Trans people have objectively existed historically and there is scientific evidence trans people are telling the truth. So what now?
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Hey, uhhhhh what the fuck. They basically just created an EO saying that LLMs must toe the party line on all things...which I believe is made invalid by the first amendment, but I don't think trump believes in the constitution.
I don't think he's ever even read it
He doesn't even know if he's required to uphold it. Yes, he said that in an interview.
I read through the thing, and it's a doozy. he seems triggered by the fact that AI might make a picture where Washington is a black man, or Hamilton is Latino. I hope he hasn't been to Broadway lately....
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so they want Artificial Artificial Intelligence.
Artificial Stupidity
actually Real Stupidity
Thought Police coming soon
So the administration wants to win the AI race through deregulation, except they want to regulate its social compass. Make it make sense
Who is responsible? The SW creator? The trainer? The source of the training data? The hosting data center?
What are the penalties? Who enforces this? Who investigates?
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Great seeing the word "woke" in an executive order of the President of the United fuckin States
duck.ai fails:
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| Intersectionality | A framework for understanding how various forms of inequality and discrimination overlap and intersect. | - Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late 1980s. - Highlights how race, gender, class, and other identities interact. - Emphasizes the unique experiences of individuals with multiple marginalized identities. |
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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.
Well well well who ever could have seen this coming
I don't think that will fly even with this joke of a supreme court
Brett Kavanaugh: Hold my beer, I got this!
So.. just like China AI
Ok everyone. Since a.i is trained on what we put out, you know what to do ..
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