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BiscuitBadgeryesterday at 5:01 PM15 repliesview on HN

There have to be GovCloud only LLMs just for this case.

I swear this government is headed by appointed nephews of appointed nephews.

I keep thinking back about that Chernobyl miniseries; head of the science department used to run a shoe factory. No one needs to be competent at their job anymore


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dmixyesterday at 5:05 PM

The article says

> [ChatGPT] is blocked for other Department of Homeland Security staff. Gottumukkala “was granted permission to use ChatGPT with DHS controls in place,” adding that the use was “short-term and limited.”

He had a special exemption to use it as head of Cyber and still got flagged by cybersecurity checks. So obviously they don't think it's safe to use broadly.

They already have a deal with OpenAI to build a government focused one https://openai.com/global-affairs/introducing-chatgpt-gov/

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randycupertinoyesterday at 5:38 PM

> I swear this government is headed by appointed nephews of appointed nephews.

Don't forget the Large Adult Sons!

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-land-...

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/large-adult-sons

fookeryesterday at 8:19 PM

It's all part of the plan.

Make the government look so incompetent that it is a no brainer to let a private company (headed by your friends and family of course) to do the important jobs and siphon resources much more effectively.

tryauuumyesterday at 7:20 PM

Do remember that HBO Chernobyl is fiction, there was no shoe guy publicly drinking vodka irl

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smaudetyesterday at 7:40 PM

Guess what this administration would love to do with nuclear facilities...

Any time you have to include "competent" in a description of a job or related technology, that's a clue that it needs requisite oversight and (possibly exponetial) proportionate cost.

bdangubicyesterday at 8:15 PM

DEI in action (funny people thst voted for this were apparently anti-DEI and now they get 100% DEI)

te_chrisyesterday at 5:59 PM

The failsons of the king of the failsons

timmmmmmayyesterday at 6:25 PM

there are, he was just too lazy to use them

TZubiriyesterday at 7:01 PM

Isn't using azure openai enough? I read their docs and they have self hosted instances for corporate data compliance.

ayarosyesterday at 7:09 PM

Hey, working at a shoe factory is serious business. You have to be a real bootlicker to get ahead in a place like that.

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direwolf20yesterday at 5:36 PM

They say that most fascist governments fall apart because they actively despise competence, which it turns out you need if you are trying to run a country.

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snarky_dogyesterday at 9:51 PM

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stronglikedanyesterday at 5:17 PM

> There have to be GovCloud only LLMs just for this case.

I hear Los Alamos labs has an LLM that makes ChatGPT look like a toy. And then there's Sentinel, which may be the same thing I'm not sure.

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