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The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry – we captured backups

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[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can't wait for some serbian hacker with Xx69 in their name multiple times to destroy the US government because one of Elon's script kiddies left 42,069 security holes in the fucking system.

Gonna be awesome. lmao.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Inb4 unpatchable backdoor in environment directory

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 63 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dream of the day the People collectively have had enough and just drag the bastards into the street and beat them until they can bastard no more.

One can dream…

[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

He's hiding behind glass. He won't know fresh air ever again.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

"all-in-one API" that will allow agencies to connect their systems to models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic

This is a huge red flag to me.

It means:

  • They are ignorant of existing APIs and standards that are exactly this. Uh, MCP or OpenAI API? Which everyone already uses?
  • They have zero interesting in models they can host themselves, or from cheaper providers. Or, heaven forbit, finetune for their own work.
  • They have zero interest in actually useful tools. Like, say, SGLang's cached hosting and fast fill-in-the-blanks formatting which is perfect for say, processing government forms.

In other words, it's just full corporate AI Bro capture. And shitty.

One of the consequences is that it will be very bad, unfortunately.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The stupid is intensifying. They both a) know they can’t run a government and b) are in a rush to make something that will do all the work so they can sit back and rake in the money. No, this is not about actually making the country better because objectively LLMs suck and were never intended for such tasks.

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

They are too generic and lack the specialization needed to do such tasks. It will only end in disaster

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (19 children)

Only silver lining right now is these idiots might just be too stupid to pull off creating their evil empire.

[–] PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago

This reminds me of an interview with a Ukrainian soldier, who said of the Russians “we are lucky they are so fucking stupid”. If only that translated into less air superiority by Russia, because that's where Ukraine struggles.

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[–] titey@jlai.lu 62 points 2 days ago (14 children)

DB_PASS="postgres" 😬😬😬

[–] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean it is called ".env_example" afterall... Probably a env file to use for testing, no?

[–] forgeddit@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

I'm really shocked by the confidence people have here with clearly zero knowledge.

".env_example" is literally just the example/template which is only updated if new "config" items are needed and it doesn't contain actual secrets.

Developers copy ".env"/prod and ".env_local" files, which are used for the specific environments. These are in .gitignore so that they're not accidentally pushed to .git.

For production the ".env" is generated during deployment from secrets in a locked up environment. (I mean they COULD fuck this up, but there's no evidence of this AFAIK)

The example postgres password is simply a "hello world" type password that is often used when running a local docker image of the DB so you can get a full dev environment running in a couple minutes, as mentioned in the readme.md: https://github.com/gsa-tts-archived/ai-gov-api

It's not even a testing environment, it's a temporary local/dev DB just so you can test your code.

I am NOT defending this project, but holy shit this thread is full of misinformation and I had to correct this.

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[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 162 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They are even dumber than Leslie Nielsen as American president in his parodies.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 70 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This was the feeling!!! I couldn't put my finger on just how this entire thing felt to me, you've cleared the skies and allowed the light of recollection to meet my shores!

It feels like 70s-80s slapstick!

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do we want? sKYNET!!!!

When do we want it? As soon as it can beat beginner atari chess?!?!

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

When do we want it? As soon as it can beat beginner atari chess?!?!

There's no time! We'll have to just go for it! (apparently)

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 97 points 2 days ago

Well good luck to you guys in the US. This AI government will be extremely dangerous. An all knowing advertisement algorithm reaching deep in government data with an unsafe LLM on top? Ouch.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 72 points 2 days ago

Move fast and break things is not good when government is involved.

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 2 days ago

I want off Mr Bone's wild ride

[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Just waiting for the first decision made because of AI hallucinations.

With this government? You might get disappeared to a black site because a LLM "decided" that you probably are a terrorist...

[–] stm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I consider this as the final confirmation that he wants to bring the government down.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump just wants people bowing to him. His handlers are the ones with real plans. Don't let Peter Thiel run away to Argentina.

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Trump is the disposable face of something much darker. He is a tool.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I hate that all of the worst things Donald is planning are slated for July 4.

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[–] cmder@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Super earth's managed democracy was supposed to be satire...

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