• bitcrafter@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    The title of the post, as opposed to the title of the executive order, is very misleading: this executive order only applies to the AIs that are allowed to be procured and used by the federal government, not to all AI in general.

    (Having said that, the underlying motivation behind it is still nonsense, just as it has been for all of the other executive orders.)

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        4 days ago

        If the objective of the administration had been to place restrictions on all AI in general, heedless of restraint, then it could have just as easily written an executive order which did that instead. However, that is not what they did.

        My intent is not to calm anyone, but merely to clarify. Honestly, I view this executive order as just being a relatively minor extension of previous (terrible) executive orders to say, “Oh, and this applies to AI too.”

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          Couple things…

          First, expanding existing edits to cover more things will get far less resistance and be harder to fight than the just making one heavy handed edict.

          Second, this also creates a dependency that wasn’t there before. He’s poisoning the well for anyone who might follow.

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            4 days ago

            I do not think that they are playing 5D chess in this particular executive order, since they are just taking their existing policies banning the federal government from anything having to do with DEI and extending them to AI, rather than doing something brand new.

            Also, the good news is that, just as it only took a stroke of a pen to create these executive orders, it also will only take a stroke of a pen for anyone who follows to get rid of them.

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      6 days ago

      Does that slant big tech in that direction because they want to do business with the government? Every computer with copilot is compromised the second microsoft says we don’t want to make 2

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        5 days ago

        Does that slant big tech in that direction because they want to do business with the government?

        Unfortunately, I agree that is a very fair concern.

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    6 days ago

    Hey Trump! I’m trans and I’m still fucking here, you son of a bitch!

    Not you, OP, you’re great and we’re thrilled to have you here.

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      You mean Chinese models. There are no useful LLMs that are trained in an open source way. It’s too expensive. There are only “open weight” models.