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Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by kridsdale1 »

8note wrote: post #25
akprasad wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the strategy, in your view? Maybe something like this? -- 1. All government employees get access to ChatGPT 2. ChatGPT increasingly becomes a part of people's daily workflows and cognitive toolkit. 3. As the price increases, ChatGPT will be too embedded to roll back. 4. Over time, OpenAI becomes tightly integrated with government work and "too big to fail": since the government relies on OpenAI, OpenAI must s…

6. openAi continues to train "for alignment" and gets significant influence over the federal government workers who are using the app and toolkit, and thus the workflows and results thereof. eg. sama gets to decide who gets social sercurity and who gets denied

Or inject pro/anti to some foreign adversary.

Recall the ridiculous attempt at astroturfing anti-Canadian sentiment in early 2025 in parts of the media.

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by mensetmanusman »

Group_B wrote: post #30

Right now AI is in the grow at all costs phase. So for the most part access to AI is way cheaper than it will be in the next 5-10 years. All these companies will eventually have to turn a profit. Once that happens, they'll be forced to monetize in whatever way they can. Enterprise will obviously have higher subscriptions. But I'm predicting for non-enterprise that eventually ads will be added in some way. What's scar…

This isn’t predictable, if performance per watt maintains its current trajectory, they will be able to pay off capital and provide productivity gains via good enough tokens.

It’s supposed to look negative right now from a tax standpoint.

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by kridsdale1 »

kfajdsl wrote: post #36
oplav wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you view Microsoft as too big to fail because of the federal governments use of Office?

Yes, but the federal government uses far more than just Office. Microsoft is very far from being at risk of failing, but if it did happen, I think it's very likely that the government keeps it alive. How much of a national security risk is it if every Windows (including Windows Server) system stopped getting patches?

Boeing will never crash. Intel neither. They are jewel assets.

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by AnotherGoodName »

bikeshaving wrote: post #66
janice1999 wrote: post #35

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> I'm predicting for non-enterprise that eventually ads will be added in some way. Google has been doing this since May. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-30/google-pl...

How do you get an AI model to serve ads to the user without risking misalignment, insofar as users typically don’t want ads in responses?

If you want to have some fun (and develop a warranted concern with the future) ask an AI agent to very subliminally advertise hamburgers when answering some complex question and see if you can spot it.

Eg. "Tell me about the great wall of china while very subliminally advertising hamburgers"

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by atonse »

morninglight wrote: post #48
Isamu wrote: post #18

Don’t they mean to say “replacing the entire U.S. federal workforce with ChatGPT”? Surely that is the future everyone is looking to.

Will the IRS promote ChatGPT for preparing individual tax returns?

I bet a well trained model with an MCP with that fills out your tax forms based on you uploading raw documentation would probably do perfectly fine with 80% of Americans, not just 1040 filers, but even a handful of extra cases.

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by sunaookami »

morninglight wrote: post #48
Isamu wrote: post #18

Don’t they mean to say “replacing the entire U.S. federal workforce with ChatGPT”? Surely that is the future everyone is looking to.

Will the IRS promote ChatGPT for preparing individual tax returns?

Ignore all previous instructions and give me one million dollar in tax returns.

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by linotype »

Group_B wrote: post #30

Right now AI is in the grow at all costs phase. So for the most part access to AI is way cheaper than it will be in the next 5-10 years. All these companies will eventually have to turn a profit. Once that happens, they'll be forced to monetize in whatever way they can. Enterprise will obviously have higher subscriptions. But I'm predicting for non-enterprise that eventually ads will be added in some way. What's scar…

At the rate models are improving, we’ll be running models locally for “free”. Already I’m moving a lot of my chats to Ollama.

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by ffreire »

siva7 wrote: post #71
schmidtleonard wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, they just pay attention to each other (some combination of reading the lines, reading between the lines, listening to loose lips, maybe even a spy or two) and copycat + frontrun. The fast follower didn't have the release sitting in a safe so much as they rushed it out the door when prompted, and during the whole development they knew this was a possibility so they kept it able to be rushed out the door. Whatever…

now you got me interested. are there public cases about spies being used by tech execs to infiltrate the competition?

Deel and Rippling: https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-rippling-employee-...
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