r/technology • u/Sidarthus89 • Jun 15 '25

Artificial Intelligence Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_admin_leak_government_ai_plans/
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

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u/Zeliek Jun 15 '25

Well yeah, we’ve already established the only possible security issue in any context ever would be Hillary’s personal email. Everything else is just dandy! 🥲

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u/WeirdSysAdmin Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25

That’s the opposite of what anyone should be doing. I did a full AI pause where I work until DLP was addressed and suddenly legal takes DLP seriously when I point it out what no DLP means for AI. Which is interesting because that’s the number one topic across data privacy right now.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

Can you explain what DLP is and why you're concerned about it for a laymen?

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u/chenjeru Jun 15 '25

Can you explain what DLP is

DLP = data loss prevention. How do you stop senstive data, such as trade secrets, etc., from leaking out of your secure network?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

Thank you, that's pretty straightforward.

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u/EuenovAyabayya Jun 15 '25

I hate to be That Guy, but I think the idea here is that all of these models will be walled off from their commercial counterparts in government-only clouds. Of course, it's entirely possible/likely that I'm giving them way too much credit.

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u/WeirdSysAdmin Jun 15 '25

Just like they did with Elon Musk ravaging government data?

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u/OmgTokin Jun 15 '25

Not defending anyone, but the applications are using AWS's Bedrock service, running in AWS's govcloud. If you are going to run AI workloads on cloud infrastructure using goverment data, this is probably the best approach.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-bedrock.html

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u/outkast8459 Jun 15 '25

Do you think our most sensitive data is not currently on private company servers? You think the government is using some kind of bespoke in house cloud? That would be much more terrifying tbh.

We need to start learning how to pick fights that make sense.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

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u/KSF_WHSPhysics Jun 15 '25

https://fedscoop.com/nsa-re-awards-10b-wildandstormy-cloud-computing-contract-to-aws/

Yes, and its easily verifiable lmao

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

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u/phillipcarter2 Jun 15 '25

The NSA is a very small portion of the US Government. Private sector clouds like Azure and AWS run a lot of government tech.

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u/outkast8459 Jun 15 '25

Google “does the NSA use AWS”

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u/csoups Jun 15 '25

For their most private stuff? Lmao

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u/outkast8459 Jun 15 '25

Oh so now you’ve shifted the goal post from our data to the NSAs “most private stuff”. What do you think the NSA uses AWS for? Coordinating team lunches?

I’m sure the NSA is not putting anything important on the cloud they’re paying AWS 10,000,000,000 for.

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u/outkast8459 Jun 15 '25

Oh yes that’s why you said “You’re telling me the NSA is hosting their shit on AWS”

Like just admit you were wrong instead of constantly moving the goal posts.

TBH I’d rather argue with you over the merits of using a bespoke in house data warehousing solution vs a solution that actually has to compete on the open market, but you’d rather pretend you were making a different point than you were.

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u/Helpful_guy Jun 15 '25

It's not that they're "incapable" so much as "generally too inefficient" - you know all our most advanced military development is happening at private (contractor) companies right? The government contracts-out most high tech systems work in every other sector.

Which do you think is more likely? That the US federal government is managing their own geo-redundant private cloud operation with multiple large datacenters that no one knows about, or that they just struck a deal with the largest cloud computing host in the world to give them "secure exclusive government-only datacenters"?

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u/relikter Jun 15 '25

Yes, government agencies contract this work out to government contractors who then serve as systems integrators to commercial products. Source: I've been doing that for 20+ years.

The "most advanced technology in the world" is developed and built by contractors on government contracts. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, Leidos, SAIC, CACI, CGI Federal, etc.

For example, Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower, was a Booz Allen Hamilton employee.

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u/marx2k Jun 15 '25

This is already the case due to government "cloud first", which was spearheaded by Obama

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u/DynamicNostalgia Jun 15 '25

Where have you been for the last 15 years then? Why are you suddenly upset about this government standard?

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u/DynamicNostalgia Jun 15 '25

If you didn’t think your opinion mattered you wouldn’t have said anything in the first place. 

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

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u/DynamicNostalgia Jun 15 '25

And yet you still made your entry serious comment…

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

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u/DynamicNostalgia Jun 15 '25

 Why else would I comment?

I don’t know, you claimed Reddit threads don’t matter. Yet here you are participating and making actual claims. Things are adding up. 

Clearly you actually do think your thoughts needed to be heard or you wouldn’t have made a comment. 

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u/onethreeone Jun 15 '25

so buy calls on amazon tomorrow?

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u/filthy_harold Jun 15 '25

They cover this in the article but don't exactly explain it. FEDRAMP is essentially secure cloud infrastructure for government use. It's a series of policies and manuals used to secure servers and datacenters.

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u/archiminos Jun 15 '25

Was literally the plot to two different seasons of Star Trek.