Congress Sets Limits On Staff ChatGPT Use (axios.com) 15
In a memo to House staffers this morning, the chamber's Chief Administrative Officer Catherine L. Szpindor said it is placing new guardrails around use of ChatGPT by congressional offices. Axios reports: Szpindor wrote that offices are "only authorized" to use the paid ChatGPT Plus. Unlike the free service, she said, the $20-per-month subscription version "incorporates important privacy features that are necessary to protect House data." She said in addition to other versions of ChatGPT, no other large language models are authorized for use. Szpindor also laid out an array of regulations on how to use the tool.
Offices are allowed to use the tool for "research and evaluation only" and can experiment on how it can improve their operations, but are "not authorized to incorporate it into regular workflow." Offices should only input "non-sensitive" data, she added, instructing staffers not to "paste into the chat bot any blocks of text that have not already been made public." She instructed offices to enable privacy settings, which are disabled by default, to "ensure that your history is not preserved and your interactions are not incorporated back into the large language model."
Offices are allowed to use the tool for "research and evaluation only" and can experiment on how it can improve their operations, but are "not authorized to incorporate it into regular workflow." Offices should only input "non-sensitive" data, she added, instructing staffers not to "paste into the chat bot any blocks of text that have not already been made public." She instructed offices to enable privacy settings, which are disabled by default, to "ensure that your history is not preserved and your interactions are not incorporated back into the large language model."
Just ban it. (Score:1)
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How well has prohibition worked to reduce drug overdoses, amirite?
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How well has prohibition worked to reduce drug overdoses, amirite?
If you really did have a free market capitalist economy, its a simple matter of supply and demand!
The market wants fentanyl? Import fentanyl!
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It does neat parlor tricks, but the kids on the Hill don't need it.
Oh come on, you'd think that creating new laws was the perfect place for generative AI!
Just think of the hilarious outcomes...
Here we come, ohh our LLM Overlords... (Score:1)
This organisation regulates Meta in the EU (Score:2)
Of course our lords and masters don't want to know how it is responding to complaints against them... ;)
That's funny... (Score:4, Funny)
I use chatgpt to mostly draft corporate emails for me. I tell it what I want to say and it just drops the perfect email full of absolutely nothing that corporate loves.
Congress, of all place, is the perfect usecase of chatgpt:
-Is always confidently right
-Gaslights you if you disagree with it
-Uses so many words to say nothing of actual importance
I cant wait for the next election cycle, If you thought 2016 was entertaining, you haven't seen anything yet.
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If you want some ChatGP and AI inspired election drama, there is a 24/7 twitch channel that has AI Trump and AI Biden debating each other. It is HILARIOUS.
https://www.twitch.tv/trumporb... [twitch.tv]
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I'm partial to the AI presidents reviewing old metal albums streams. Trump's a huge Megadeth fan, and Biden's constantly telling him to shut up about Dave every time Metallica is mentioned. It's hysterical.
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They're already using ChatGPT to write campaign slogans. We're basically watching the end-game for politics as we know it. No longer will we even get accidental nuggets of truth out of candidate's mouths. It'll all be ChatGPT levels of obscurity and drivel, with nary a tidbit of reality to be seen.
Who is using this? (Score:2)
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As many people are discovering, it's easier and faster to just write it yourself.
Better Yet (Score:2)
Make a deal with them.
Government approved cloud is already a thing, and Open AI's partner, Microsoft offers Azure for them: https://azure.microsoft.com/en... [microsoft.com]
Just have them sign a one time all encompassing deal. Government workers access Chat GPT through a special interface, and their data is never mingled with the public.
They can even run separate instances in physically detached locations.
I don't like banning stuff, when there are perfectly good alternatives.
(Whether Chat GPT is useful is entirely differen
I don't get way though (Score:2)
Hallucinating stuff is kinda their thing, no?
i.e. we must protect government jobs (Score:2)