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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.

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Beat me to it. Most same Americans don't want this, it's the current administration and their moronic lap dogs, and the conglomerates that are paying into Cheeto's personal accounts to "influence him" that want this. Id hope that most of us realize how insanely idiotic this is.

Also to, AI anti-regulation 2: electric boogaloo? Like they literally just tried to shoehorn this into the big bullshit bill only for it to get yanked, and that was what, two weeks ago?

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yup. That's never going to fly, and even if it does, that doesn't mean the Executive all of a sudden gets to start telling private companies how they can and can't operate according to the law. It's so stupid.

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

We've seen this before.

They know how it ends.

I look forward to the big swing in the mid terms then based off your information

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[-] tonytins@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago

Good luck enforcing open source AI.

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[-] einlander@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

Sadly Trump will probably be dead before his place in Florida is flooded by the rising ocean.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[-] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Very similar to crypto, the AI hype is sustained by some future promise that never comes true.

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] CXORA@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Neither AI, nor Crypto have had any meaningful positive impact on the world.

[-] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Hmm. It does sound a bit unhinged. Do I dare say tyrannical? Evil even? Legitimising themselves as a target?

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The only person I know working at NIST is a hard right MAGA pro-fascist

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I'm glad that they're acknowledging that DEI and climate change are not misinformation at least.

[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

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