• bitcrafter@programming.dev
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    18 days ago

    This executive order only sets policy for AI use by the federal government, not for how AIs must behave for the entire country.

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      18 days ago

      Still, it takes a lot of work and resources to design and train a model, so American AI companies may self-censor everywhere so that they don’t have to do the work twice, once for the US Government and once for general use.

      Hopefully they’ll just wrap uncensored models in additional filters when they’re serving the US Government, or add an instruction to answer as a Nazi would, and the rest of us can avoid those Nazified versions. But I don’t trust the AI techbros.

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        18 days ago

        I agree that is a legitimate concern, though I would hope that even in that case there would be less popular alternative models that people could use, just like how those of us who want to stay away from the big social networks can use Lemmy. This would not save us from AI chatbots subtly reprogramming the population just like how Facebook did with its algorithm, though…