Comment by bioemerl@kbin.social on Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens

Highlights: The White House issued draft rules today that would require federal agencies to evaluate and constantly monitor algorithms used in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential discrimination or other harmful effects on human rights.

Once in effect, the rules could force changes in US government activity dependent on AI, such as the FBI’s use of face recognition technology, which has been criticized for not taking steps called for by Congress to protect civil liberties. The new rules would require government agencies to assess existing algorithms by August 2024 and stop using any that don’t comply.

As long as he doesn’t start getting in the way of open source algorithms were fine.

Delay llama 3 and I’m voting for whoever runs against Biden. No exceptions, I will become a single issue voter and this will be my issue.

Pretty dumb dawg. The people running against him want christofascism. Not becoming the Christian version of Iran is my single issue.

Kbin, what do you expect.

Is this… instancism…? /s

Haters gonna hate I guess 😇

Nope, this is the most important issue for me. It overrides all other concerns.

I sure hope you are a strawman account because you are an idiot if this is who you are.

The idiot is the person who votes based on other people’s priorities.

If you want to believe garbage about some impending Christian fascist state you’re more than welcome to, but reality is quite a bit more mundane.

If we end up in a fucking concentration camp together I am shiving you. You stupid motherfucker.

You can shiv me in your doomerist fantasies.

Why is it the most important issue for you?

The thing that has the most direct and pressing impact on my life right now. A ban on open source AI would be like a ban on watching television.

I must guess you cannot get pregnant, aren’t a minority, as well as are wealthy. Otherwise I cannot see how this can ever be true.

That second one doesn’t matter when it comes to abortion because guys also have wives and girlfriends who can get pregnant and it’s pretty important they can abort when they do. Acting like abortion isn’t something that impacts men as well is nothing just isn’t the truth.

And I’m not really wealthy, but I live a pretty slimmed down lifestyle with very few expenses such the money is not a direct concern.

When there are no pressing issues for me to vote for those things become stuff I would vote along the lines of, and I side with a Democrats on all of them.

But I’m not some idiot who’s going to vote for the sake of other people, I vote for issues that matter to me and nothing else.

Don’t fuck with AI (and continue funding Ukraine) and I’ll be on their side. Simple as that.

This will entrench big tech in federal government, but I’m not too worried about limits on the government.

Yeah, the only concern I have so far is the leverage of the defense powers act to require foundational model development to sent red team results to the Fed. That’s a hint that will enable them to ban release of models in the future.

~~The same way they do it with crypto bullshit I’d imagine. Prosecute people for export.~~

Edit: my bad. Daddy government can only do good. That’s why we support Israel.

I’m glad it got shut down, but it doesn’t mean it didn’t have a chilling effect for years.

It was an issue the government created to inhibit crypto. Consider 3D printed gun models, because they did the same kind of thing there and it’s in effect still.

I fucking can’t with you people.

If you’ve got a better reason you look like you use boot polish for lipstick I’m all ears.

The government using export restrictions (and any other law they can try to make apply) to enrich corporations isn’t fucking new.

Pretty darn easily given that the United States controls Nvidia

Is there something confusing in that sentence? The US has already banned the export of cards above a certain speed to China. It would be simple to extend that control.

I don’t think you have anything to worry about. All this requires is that any models used by the government are tested for bias. Which is a good thing.

Go ask an early generation ai image generator to make pictures of people cleaning and it will give you a bunch of pictures of women. There are all sorts of examples of racial, sex, and religious biases in the models because of the data they were trained on.

Requiring the executive agencies to test for bias is a good thing.

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