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FBI Paid $851K in Overtime for Epstein 'Transparency Project' Redactions

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Re: FBI Paid $851K in Overtime for Epstein 'Transparency Project' Redactions

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Don't only names, addresses, email addresses, account/phone numbers, and illustrations need to be redacted? Couldn't an LLM do at least most of that fast and cheap?

For such a simple task, checking the AI's work would probably take just as long as doing the redaction by hand.

Re: FBI Paid $851K in Overtime for Epstein 'Transparency Project' Redactions

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post #11

Don't only names, addresses, email addresses, account/phone numbers, and illustrations need to be redacted? Couldn't an LLM do at least most of that fast and cheap?

For such a simple task, checking the AI's work would probably take just as long as doing the redaction by hand.

Maybe a lot of the budget is already going to a second level of workers checking the redacting workers' work.

Re: FBI Paid $851K in Overtime for Epstein 'Transparency Project' Redactions

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Don't only names, addresses, email addresses, account/phone numbers, and illustrations need to be redacted? Couldn't an LLM do at least most of that fast and cheap?

LLMs are suitable for tasks where it’s cheap to validate the result or the cost of being wrong is low. This is basically the opposite of that: if you fail to redact things, the costs can be high and since these are documents written by humans you need intelligence to handle indirect or obscure language or you’re risking missing a redaction because clues which don’t easily identify someone can be combined to do so. A million dollars is likely to be considerably cheaper than the legal costs of getting it wrong.

Re: FBI Paid $851K in Overtime for Epstein 'Transparency Project' Redactions

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

how do things change? genuinely interested… I am soooo past helpnessness phase at this point (also have no hope at all anything will change…)

Incrementally and unevenly. The catholic church abuse scandal took decades of persistence before change. Tobacco litigation seemed pointless until it wasn't. Epstein was a known criminal for years before arrest. The gap is long and uncertain, but the alternative is what? You keep your own house in order regardless of whether the neighborhood is on fire. That is the only part you can control

I wish I shared your enthusiasm. I generally do but I think we are too far into deep end to make this change
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