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[–] conciselyverbose 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

I'm not really arguing the merit, just answering how I'm reading the article.

The systems are airgapped and never exfiltrate information so that shouldn't really be a concern.

Humans are also a potential liability to a classified operation. If you can get the same results with 2 human analysts overseeing/supplementing the work of AI as you would with 2 human analysts overseeing/supplementing 5 junior people, it's worth evaluating. You absolutely should never be blindly trusting an LLM for anything. They're not intelligent. But they can be used as a tool by capable people to increase their effectiveness.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (6 children)

it's not airgapped, it's still cloud, it can't be. it's some kind of "secure" cloud that passed some kind of audit. openai already had a breach or a few, so i'm not entirely sure it will pan out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Iirc OpenAI uses Microsoft's cloud?

If so, MSFT has a special airgapped cloud specifically for USGov.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

they probably do. I worked for a content-as-a-service company that had a contract to deliver our product, airgapped, to a three-letter agency on a regular schedule, and we were a tiny company. Microsoft's biggest customer is probably the U.S. government; I'd be shocked if they don't provide an in-house airgapped set of full Azure services for the entire intelligence agency system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They do. Source: I worked in at MSFT in Azure Identity. It's completely separate, has its own rollout schedule for all products, etc.

There's also a physically separate cloud for China 🙃

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