The Trump administration recently published “America’s AI Action Plan”. One of the first policy actions from the document is to eliminate references to misinformation, diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate change from the NIST’s AI Risk Framework.
Lacking any sense of irony, the very next point states LLM developers should ensure their systems are “objective and free from top-down ideological bias”.
Par for the course for Trump and his cronies, but the world should know what kind of AI the US wants to build.
Again, AMERICA doesn’t want this. This is some dumb shit from a mentally deficient and decrepit old man that somehow got elected under very shady terms by a minority of the country.
As a US citizen, prove to me that most Americans don’t want this.
Yeah, I see the protests, even in my Trump-loving town.
But that’s it. People holding signs.
I don’t see aggressive action. I don’t see the necessary violence - yeah I said it.
I’m moving out of the country because everyone I’ve tried to rally says they’re too busy, they don’t have time, they care but they don’t care that much, they think everything will work out, or they believe it isn’t as bad as the news says.
The people I’ve voted for and elected just sit on their hands and do fuck all.
I’m 110% for fighting for and defending what I used to believe in, but not when literally all evidence and signs point to nobody else giving a shit.
Someone call me when you’re ready to legitimately strategize about how to topple this fascist regime.
Zero presidents have ever lost as much support for anything at any time in the history of this country: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
Not only is this a wildly unpopular president, it’s a president who has shed 35-50% of their own voters. It’s proof positive that you are wrong.
Thank you for the information. I just hope it leads to action. Poll results to me are just someone standing around waving a sign.
These fascists didn’t rise to power by following all the rules, and they won’t exit or lose power by us following the rules. It’s a sad truth.
What matters more? What AMERICA wants, or what the administration enacts in to policy? You’re missing the point if you’re arguing about my phrasing.
The phrasing means everything.
Example: “Trump wants…”
VS
Example: “America wants…”
Big difference. Executive Orders are a memo, not law. It’s disturbing that I have to keep saying this and explaining this.
I did not use the word “law”. So you’re arguing that EO’s have no actual effect? That is blatantly false: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-dei-purge-is-hitting-nasa-hard/
I’m arguing that you’re intentionally trying to play semantics with phrasing and claim it doesn’t matter, when it absolutely does, and everyone in here is explaining to you why. That’s all.
Okay. My argument is that the semantics don’t matter because what matters is policy.
And since you did use the word “policy”, I did mention that EO’s aren’t laws. It’s a memo. He has no control via EOnof anyone except the people in his purview. Not private companies, not researches, not law, not state governments.
You’re saying that EO’s are not policy?
Thank you anyone who profiles entire people with stereotypes and outright lies is a bigot, no matter what they say
Like how some americans see the Middel East, Russia, China, Israel, Palestine, Mexico etc etc etc…
Its not nice when its going the other way, is it.
I don’t do that because it wouldn’t be right. Doesn’t matter who did what to me in the past.
For instance if you were a plumber and you intentionally smashed a piece of furniture while at a clients house, does that mean all plumbers are violently vandalizing people’s homes ,no.
Because adult human beings know that the actions of one do not define the actions of all.
I am not changing this position. You can get the last word, throw an insult at me or do nothing.
Choice is yours but I’m done. I don’t have to defend the correct position. It is correct.
I just, I do not understand why this upsets people so much.
I work for a company that does things I don’t want them to do all the time. I’ve never felt like someone saying “[the company] wants to do [this thing]” was ever referring to me specifically whatsoever.
What if they said employees of your company all support a thing? That would include you.
It’s absolutely insane to say all Americans support Trump when he has a net negative approval rating pretty much everywhere, including red states. Look at the opinion polls, most people don’t like what’s going on. Yet for some reason, people claim the majority of us like him for some reason.
What if they said employees of your company all support a thing? That would include you.
But no one is doing this. America is a state.
But they do for countries, when they say “Americans do X” when it’s just the administration doing it and it’s unpopular.
It is an absolute fucking god damn JOKE that Americans have allowed the concepts of DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION to be turned into a FUCKING ACRONYM THAT IS USED AS A PEJORATIVE.
Every single fucking one of them should be bloody ashamed for what has happened. At no fucking god damn point has any decent fucking person challenged any of these assholes on this, they’ve all just let it happen.
Unfuckingbelievable
This is going to be catastrophic. Imagine the government using AI that does not factor that waters will rise and things will get more humid when deciding to build houses or bridges only for them to be underwater.
I don’t even think the models are going to work anymore. Everytime Musk tries to ideologically forces tweeter AI it’s going fucking crazy and instable.
eliminate references to misinformation, diversity, equity and inclusion
They are openly authoritarian now, define what “truth” is? And want americans to be miserable and closed-minded bigots like themselves.
Recommendation: build a system of verifiable facts independent of governments.
Recommendation: download wikipedia. While you still can.
Logical processes require logic to function. This is just going to end up creating contradictions and decreasing the AI’s ability to actually produce usable work. So whichever AI has the most contradictions will probably cause a drop in quality for productivity use.
It will be interesting to see how different AI’s continue to diverge in quality and reputation as time passes.
Alibaba’s AI department, and hopefully MistralAI, must be so happy right now, the competition is getting rid of itself.
Good luck enforcing open source AI.
Do you think that regulations have no effect on open source AI?
In this case? Yeah. There will always be someone with a copy of the code. They just spin up a new model and share it with the world. It’s like The Pirate Bay. No matter how hard they try to destroy the site, it always comes back.
I think the bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN bill has and will have a substantial effect on the proliferation of open source deepfake models. Sure, a tech savvy individual will still be able to download a model themselves and do whatever, but it significantly different from having deepfake services readily available for millions to use. Is it absolute enforcement, no, but it has a substantial effect on the world.
How did we get to talking about deepfakes? They’re trying to stop honest discussions about misinformation, diversity, equity, inclusion, and climate change.
I was giving an example of regulation that has an effect on open source AI
Fair enough. That being said, deepfake services doesn’t need to be open source. Anything that presents to the masses is obviously going to be enforced but that doesn’t necessarily translate back to the open source supply chain.
I’m not sure if this has happened yet, but in theory the TAKE IT DOWN act could be used to shutdown an open source deepfake code or model repository. In that case you’re right that there will be copies that spring up, but I think it is significant that popular projects could be taken down like that.
You should be able to train AI to identify misinformation the same way you train it to identify a hotdog.
Do we seriously just feed them the whole internet giving everything equal weight?
“America” != “The U.S.”
Its like saying "The French [edit: population] want <something form a France PM press release> [edit: because <the press release>] "
Edit: fixed bad example and made the argument clearer.
That’s… literally how it works. If the French president or French government made an official statement, headlines could and do accurately state " the French want x"
Bad example sorry.
Edit: improved comment :)
Sure, but your new sentence isn’t like the one you are complaining about… so yes, if the headline was different than it is now there’s a chance it would be a bad headline.
The only solace I find in this is that AI, and AGI specifically, is probably a massive grift that will crash spectacularly at some point.
Like crypto?
Very similar to crypto, the AI hype is sustained by some future promise that never comes true.
AI, crypto, just like .com, are very much very real, valuable technologies that have and will continue to stick around and be used until we destroy ourselves, or something even more advanced comes along.
What was/is a grift, is all the stupid money and people around it that don’t have a damn clue where the limits of the technologies actually lie, what kinds of real problems are solved and have been sold lies stop lies without doing their due diligence.
