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.
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
The whole “non DEI” / “DEI hostile” stance seems so weird. I get that the basis is “you should not hire someone because of their origin/look/orientation/whatever”, and, maybe, why not. I hire people based on qualifications usually. How did it turn into “you should fire these people”.
…that’s a rhetorical question. I know that that first part was just a pretense, but still, how much of a morons must people be to follow that.
Oh we are ashamed.
But this is not ignorance or stupidity, but cult effervescence demonstrated as a phenomenon of social bias.
Think of it as an advertising technique or technology, one that not everyone is susceptible to by enough people are. My dad is (was) a literal rocket scientist for NASA and now a whole hearted MAGA disciple. You don’t have to be unintelligent or ignorant, you just need to want reality to be different than it appears to be from observational data.
We are not special is a difficult truth for some to take, and immense propaganda machines capitalize on this desire.
We’ll need to counter it or figure out the negative consequences of using it but until then — heck even MLMs are just business cults — they’ll stay in use to subvert society until it collapses.
The US is one very large example, but these methods are used globally by people with influence who fear losing their power to movements of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
aka DEI
aka Wokeness
aka the fundamental principles of communism and anarchism. This is an old fight.
Putting a title on it (I.e. “Big beautiful bill”) doesn’t mean it is a big, beautiful bill.
I’m not skeptical of DEI because I’m against “diversity, equity, and inclusion”, I’m skeptical because of piss poor implementations of it I see in the workforce
This is why Donald loves the poorly uneducated morons.
poorly uneducated
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.
It is essential that AI is built with freedom of expression and that the government doesn’t interfere
Recommended actions: The government should limit what AI can talk about
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.
At this point any idiot can buy drugs on the dark web. We know this because many do it wrong. The same will apply to deepfake websites.
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.
Sadly Trump will probably be dead before his place in Florida is flooded by the rising ocean.
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.
How does one get rid of misinformation and tell it to not give real answers. I just don’t get how you can say weather anomalies are consistently occuring more and more… and it is not tied together at all. It’s like trying to do math and having 10 apples. But we cannot recognize we have a total 10 apples. So we say we have 10 individual appels, but we can’t say they add up to ten.
I’m glad that they’re acknowledging that DEI and climate change are not misinformation at least.
Yeah, that’s why they removed information about it on
.gov websites…
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.
Yet somehow this is going to be the super intelligence that solves climate change (while we’re building data centers for it that will cause more emissions).
The sad thing is that AI has already solved climate change. Just ask it! Same solutions we already knew.
User: Hey AI how do we solve climate change?
AI: Sure thing, I’ve updated a comprehensive report with a step by step guide to accomplish your goal of solving climate change. Just click this file to download it: SkyNet.exe
Hmm. It does sound a bit unhinged. Do I dare say tyrannical? Evil even? Legitimising themselves as a target?
Ensure that Frontier AI Protects Fee Speech
revise the NST to eliminate references to misinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and climate change.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Censorship is free speech.
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.
I agree with this, mostly. The tech is real – The blockchain has solid math behind it. I don’t know if I agree with its value though. The viable usecases are significantly limited compared to the hype behind them. Bitcoin for example is still inherently inefficient compared to conventional payment systems. AI feels a lot like that – lots of hype with very little substance at its core.
Didn’t you hear about the scandals with Steam and Itch with traditional centralised payment processors? Decentralised payments like crypto are a method of solving that issue.
Only in the sense that crypto is an alternative payment method in the same way that pulling out is an alternative to condoms.
Lol, that’s great.
The steam/itch situation is a bit complicated. I think the organization behind that action has bad motivations, so it’s not the best example for the long term. My guess is that itch will update their NSFW policy to allow for some NSFW content, but not content that depicts truly heinous material.
The reason I would support that type of activism, to an extent, is that it was effective against Musk when he started turning twitter into a hellscape: https://www.freepress.net/sites/default/files/2022-11/stop_toxic_twitter_coalition_open_letter_to_twitter_final.pdf
it is the best example, because it clearly shows a big weakness of centralized digital payments that crypto does not have
itch can adjust their policy all they want if the payment processors will dictate what they can allow, and just say no at any time.
Neither AI, nor Crypto have had any meaningful positive impact on the world.
The funny thing about not specifically dealing with misinformation in an LLM is that not trying to account for misinformation will lead to very wild responses in terms of accuracy, and I don’t mean things relating to politics, but things like putting glue into a pizza recipe.
I personally want AI that will delete itself upon being created, so I don’t have to deal with it and the stupidity it causes in people
what is this document on your screenshot? where can we read it in full?
I’m surprised that nobody asked it yet… but not so surprised
The only person I know working at NIST is a hard right MAGA pro-fascist
