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>The order would dictate that AI companies getting federal contracts be politically neutral and unbiased, an effort to combat what administration officials see as overly liberal AI models, the people said.

Scary stuff.

This is why we need LLMs from many different countries. I use Deepseek for any non-China political type question as using a Western One can't be relied upon as a rule.

wepple · 7h ago

At some point (possibly already?), having no federal contracts will be a massive competitive advantage.

mcphage · 7h ago

> politically neutral and unbiased

I wonder what those words will mean this time?

xnx · 5h ago

Trained on the fair and balanced content from Fox News.

CephalopodMD · 6h ago

AI labs already do everything they can to have politically neutral responses. It turns out that when you pre-train on all the content ever produced by humanity and post-train on real people's preferences, the result is extremely liberal. That's been my experience at least. It's a little counterintuitive, and there are definitely corner cases where misaligned AI becomes more conservative, hateful, or authoritarian, but that's the trend overall. I can all but guarantee that every single major AI product out there would be even more liberal with trust and safety interventions turned off.

jacknews · 5h ago

> conservative, hateful ... authoritarian

sums it up nicely

JoeOfTexas · 7h ago

Is AI free speech?

krapp · 5h ago

Yeah.

I don't want it to be but AI is going to be the mediator of all human communication and access to information and the generator of all cultural expression soon so it kind of has to be. Otherwise "free speech" is just what people say to one another face to face.

amanaplanacanal · 7h ago

Yeah this administration is definitely all-in on free speech. They need to be called out on this shit.

I'm beginning to think that "woke" is code for not racist enough.

plorkyeran · 6h ago

Beginning?

outworlder · 7h ago

> I'm beginning to think that "woke" is code for not racist enough.

Or not misogynist enough, or basically anything involving empathy and human decency.

UltraSane · 7h ago

Electing morons has some bad consequences. This would make US LLMs not much better than Chinese ones when it comes to censorship.

7e · 6h ago

Let’s do the opposite: let’s order the executive to be politically neutral instead. Or would thay fail due to lack of natural intelligence?

0x457 · 3h ago

RIP Gemma

techpineapple · 7h ago

This would be a distaster, and is totally predictable.

hncensorstruth · 7h ago

Can we get rid of woke people too? Insane activists training models gives you 'it's not ok to be white' viewpoints. And behind that push is the usual suspects, every single time.

mcphage · 7h ago

> And behind that push is the usual suspects, every single time.

Who are the usual suspects again?

bigyabai · 7h ago

You can't stop people from training models like that without abolishing private capital.

Good luck advocating for that without getting called pinko libscum.

mikece · 7h ago

Why doesn't anyone get upset by the fact that the use of Executive Orders has been massively abused by both parties and needs to be reigned in my Congress? It was the intent of the founders that Congress make the laws and The Executive carries them out. An executive order should be limited to how to do what Congress has mandated/authorized, not to effectively rule by edict because Congress passed legislation that allows absurdly wide latitude for The Executive to make orders (or agencies to make regulations).

As for whatever this EO is supposed to be about: Trump can't spell "AI" so I can't take his opinions on this field seriously.

jsbisviewtiful · 7h ago

Because Republicans do not care about the checks and balances of the Constitution. They only care about their own power and not the future for the next generations.

yakz · 7h ago

I think the answer is probably that life is easy enough. Directly or indirectly, as a lord optimizing for just barely good enough will leave you in power. Until an invader shows up.

mrkeen · 7h ago

> Why doesn't anyone get upset by the fact that the use of Executive Orders has been massively abused by both parties

Because all you can do in a two-party system is vote in the other EO abuser.