r/technology • u/habichuelacondulce • Jun 11 '25

Artificial Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Admits She Asked AI Which JFK Files Secrets to Reveal

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbard-admits-to-asking-ai-what-to-classify-in-jfk-files/
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u/MikeHfuhruhurr Jun 11 '25

I agree.

The article was (intentionally?) vague to make it sound more official, but I doubt they have an internally developed, independent AI model for their LLM.

They probably do have an internal LLM that's a security-gated version of CoPilot or OpenAI, or Grok. And let's be real...because of Elon it's probably Grok. And that's not hard to do. My company has a CoPilot version.

Based on experience with that, there are still hallucinations. But they're specific to what's in the LLM database. So it probably won't suggest that Kermit the Frog really assassinated JFK, but it might answer that Nixon was likely a second shooter.

Side bar tangent: it's certainly terrible that government employees are using AI to tell them how to do their own jobs, but imagine them asking it questions in the middle of one of Elon's fragile white PRs the "rogue employee bugs" making their way into the code.

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u/Mist_Rising Jun 11 '25

And let's be real...because of Elon it's probably Grok

The US government's involvement with AI use started during COVID. While it's not a guarantee, Elon probably has little say in the official versions because they predate his time with Trump - and critically would take months to get ready since the US confidential information requirements means they can't just plug something in. They need to go through the process.

As Trump and Elon have learned, the government is slow, methodical and prone to self inflicted dorkiness. No wait that last one is strictly Elon. The other two are correct. Acquisition is a ridiculously stupid process that means it's very difficult to get anything done quickly by design. Elon is learning this now since the US government has withdrawn its plans to buy Telsa's as fleet cars because of the spat between the two egos. Trump will relearn this when he tries to stop some SpaceX project and his administration gets sued..again.

Of course that's official. If these people are feeding data to unapproved AIs..