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White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

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Re: White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

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A worst case scenario I feel is that the government could restrict inference providers within the US to run only approved/American LLMs, which would be a huge deal since the only recent American OSS model is Gemma. I could see OpenAI/Anthropic/Google lobbying for that though…

Let’s hope. It would be great for Europe and the rest of the world.

Unless we (Europe) start to do the same…

Re: White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

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post #13

A worst case scenario I feel is that the government could restrict inference providers within the US to run only approved/American LLMs, which would be a huge deal since the only recent American OSS model is Gemma. I could see OpenAI/Anthropic/Google lobbying for that though…

My thought as well. They will approve every new American trained LLM but they can't control the release of free Chinese LLMs. Therefore, the only card they can play is to simply make Chinese LLMs illegal to use for American companies and Americans. Ultimately, this will grant more power to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google due to regulatory capture but it hurts the AI industry overall.

Only the us AI industry. It will put the US in a ditch with it's only asset being the ability to surveill its citizens for negative money and negative innovation. The rest of the world will keep spinning just fine

Re: White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let’s hope. It would be great for Europe and the rest of the world.

Unless we (Europe) start to do the same…

Nah there's literally no reason geopolitically or economically to do that for Europe. The US has more or less entirely botched everything except it's military applications for AI. It's endangering the whole economy in the process too.

Re: White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

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I have many questions. How would A/B testing work in the scenario where models need to be approved by the government before release? All the big providers commonly a/b test their unreleased models on production traffic. Would these need to be preapproved? Many models get tested on the public for every one that is officially "released". Will the government have the bandwidth to examine each of these? Does changing the…

You just perfectly highlighted why over-regulation in tech is troublesome. This is why I've always been against European tech regulations which gave us the cookie prompt. Politicians shouldn't be product designers. Edit: I'll take the downvotes. Every time I say this, I get downvoted. Weirdly, even EU politicians are beginning to see that they've over regulated their tech industry so much that it can't compete but HN…

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Re: White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

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I have many questions. How would A/B testing work in the scenario where models need to be approved by the government before release? All the big providers commonly a/b test their unreleased models on production traffic. Would these need to be preapproved? Many models get tested on the public for every one that is officially "released". Will the government have the bandwidth to examine each of these? Does changing the…

You just perfectly highlighted why over-regulation in tech is troublesome. This is why I've always been against European tech regulations which gave us the cookie prompt. Politicians shouldn't be product designers. Edit: I'll take the downvotes. Every time I say this, I get downvoted. Weirdly, even EU politicians are beginning to see that they've over regulated their tech industry so much that it can't compete but HN…

It's because the actual goals have nothing to do with what they say they are.

Re: White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

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post #7

They will have to "correctly" answer who is the best president, is the straight of Hormuz blocked, and how tall should the ballroom be.

We won't even have the window dressing of being declined. “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.”[1]

Instead we'll be actively lied to. American exceptionalism.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/we-tried-...

Re: White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

#40
post #14

China doesn't require permission from the White House.

Mind elaborating instead of vague posting? Are you saying that China is already doing that vetting or that China will benefit because they can release models faster without having to be blocked by WH vetting?

Also not the OP, but my read is that China can release a model without the US president's approval. If the US models need approval and China's don't, then advantage China.
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