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…
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"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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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.
I'm on it!
Only silver lining right now is these idiots might just be too stupid to pull off creating their evil empire.
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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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.
They are too generic and lack the specialization needed to do such tasks. It will only end in disaster
They are even dumber than Leslie Nielsen as American president in his parodies.
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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DB_PASS="postgres" 😬😬😬
I mean it is called ".env_example" afterall... Probably a env file to use for testing, no?
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.
so, uh... can you ELI5 this for those of us that don't know anything?
The type of database they are using is called "postgres", which is also it's password.
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Postgres, SQLite, etc are tools for database management, things like user data, application data and so on are collected here.
Edit: the DB_PASS=“postgres” is the default password when setting up a Postgres database.
Take Reddit’s Karma system or Upvotes/Downvotes for example, they’re stored in a database and however Reddit wants to utilize that data Postgres makes it easy to call upon it.
I’m sure others can give more detailed responses, I’m typing this out in a rush.
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The person you replied to doesn't know what they're talking about. It's just an example password used for running a local empty DB for development and has nothing to do with production or even test databases.
You can see this in the readme: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgsa-tts-archived%2Fai-gov-api
See my longer previous comment if you want to know more. And again, not defending this project, but this whole comment chain was just misinformation.
It’s like having your password set to “password”
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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.
Inb4 unpatchable backdoor in environment directory
Move fast and break things is not good when government is involved.
What do we want? sKYNET!!!!
When do we want it? As soon as it can beat beginner atari chess?!?!
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)
I want off Mr Bone's wild ride
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...
I consider this as the final confirmation that he wants to bring the government down.
Trump just wants people bowing to him. His handlers are the ones with real plans. Don't let Peter Thiel run away to Argentina.
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I hate that all of the worst things Donald is planning are slated for July 4.
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