HHS Asks All Employees To Start Using ChatGPT (404media.co)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/2129252/hhs-asks-all-employees-to-start-using-chatgpt
- Source link: https://www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all-employees-to-start-using-chatgpt/
> Employees at Robert F Kennedy Jr.'s Department of Health and Human Services received an email Tuesday morning with the subject line "AI Deployment," which told them that ChatGPT would be [1]rolled out for all employees at the agency . The deployment is being overseen by Clark Minor, a former Palantir employee who's now Chief Information Officer at HHS. "Artificial intelligence is beginning to improve health care, business, and government," the email, sent by deputy secretary Jim O'Neill and seen by 404 Media, begins. "Our department is committed to supporting and encouraging this transformation. In many offices around the world, the growing administrative burden of extensive emails and meetings can distract even highly motivated people from getting things done. We should all be vigilant against barriers that could slow our progress toward making America healthy again."
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> "I'm excited to move us forward by making ChatGPT available to everyone in the Department effective immediately," it adds. "Some operating divisions, such as FDA and ACF [Administration for Children and Families], have already benefitted from specific deployments of large language models to enhance their work, and now the rest of us can join them. This tool can help us promote rigorous science, radical transparency, and robust good health. As Secretary Kennedy said, 'The AI revolution has arrived.'" [...] The email says that the rollout was being led by Minor, who [2]worked at the surveillance company Palantir from 2013 through 2024. It states Minor has "taken precautions to ensure that your work with AI is carried out in a high-security environment," and that "you can input most internal data, including procurement sensitive data and routine non-sensitive personally identifiable information, with confidence."
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> It then goes on to say that "ChatGPT is currently not approved for disclosure of sensitive personally identifiable information (such as SSNs and bank account numbers), classified information, export-controlled data, or confidential commercial information subject to the Trade Secrets Act." The email does not distinguish what "non-sensitive personally identifiable information" is. HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment from 404 Media. [...] The agency has also said it plans to roll out AI through HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that will determine whether patients are eligible to receive certain treatments. These types of systems have been shown to be biased when they've been tried, and result in fewer patients getting the care they need.
[1] https://www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all-employees-to-start-using-chatgpt/
[2] https://fedscoop.com/palantir-clark-minor-listed-publicly-hhs-chief-information-officer-cio/?ref=404media.co
Nothing good... (Score:2)
Can come of this.
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that ship sailed, crashed, burned and sank a long time ago
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I dunno... at this point, it's not like ChatGPT would give *worse* advice than whatever you might get out of HHS. I would take medical advice from GPT before I would trust 45/7, RFK, or Oz to tell me that the sun is warm or water is wet. If you're taking advice from an AI, there's at least a chance... actually a fairly decent chance... you'll get the right answer. But even if it were only batting .300, that's still better than raving loons ranting on about how vaccines cause autism, ivermectin can cure
Something makes me feel uneasy... (Score:1)
... when the dark forces of the deep state, via Palantir, will control information predigested by AI for supply to the HHS. To the extent the Kennedy's agenda diverges from those forces, this will help to close the gap, not by compromise, but by manipulating the narrative frame to support the deep state agenda. I mean, Palantir is already behind the digital surveillance of Israel's enemies in Gaza, Qatar and elsewhere in the world.
Re:Something makes me feel uneasy... (Score:5, Insightful)
Too true, the article should have quoted "This tool can help us promote fake science, deceptive obfuscation, and systemic bad health."
South Park (Score:2)
It's like an episode of South Park... in real life.
What could possibly go right?
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South Park holds a mirror up to society, only slightly distorted.
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Except that today reality is so badly distorted that South Park isn't able to distort it more.
Don't worry (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't worry. The whole thing will be scrapped the first time the AI points out that vaccines don't cause autism. Or that raw, unpasteurized milk can make you sick. Or that fluoride in the water reduces cavities. Or corrections to any of the conspiracy theory idiocy that RFK Jr believes so strongly in.
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You are assuming that they haven't negotiated some sort of separate, private ChatGPT instance built on training data which has been specifically tweaked to not allow that to happen (or else with an intermediate layer designed to intercept such suggestions before they reach the end user).
Highly accurate and reliable (Score:2)
This is the tool that when asked for a list of NFL teams with six letter names replied
Here is a list of the NFL teams that have six letters in their name: Bears, Bengals, Browns, Colts, Giants, Lions,Packers, Ravens, and Saints.
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Since today was the Apple product announcement day, I thought it'd be interesting to ask ChatGPT if it knew what generation my Apple Watch was, based on the model number. I knew I could just Google it (and I think it says in the "about" section on the watch somewhere, but I didn't have the watch with me at the time), but I figured I'd give ChatGPT a shot. It responded with:
> MU672LL/A is an Apple part/model number.
> That specific one refers to the Apple USB SuperDrive – Apple’s slim external CD/DVD reader and burner that connects over USB-A
Apparently, my Apple Watch is so old it has turned into an external DVD drive. I hate it when that happens.
I would genuinely love to see (Score:4, Insightful)
A republican explain how and why they are still Republicans.
I guess if you are just ignorant. And I don't mean ignorant as an insult I mean you just don't have a clue what's going on.
But I mean we have literally watched Trump illegally deploying troops, the trade war is spiking inflation and it's become clear he is all over the Epstein files in the worst way possible.
And at this point it's also clear Trump is the Republican party. He isn't just a figurehead or even just the head of the party he is the embodiment of everything that makes the Republican party the Republican party.
I know we will never get a truthful or straight answer from Republicans because the moment you do they would stop being Republicans but still...
That's the catch 22. If you have enough self-awareness to acknowledge everything above you can't stay Republican so you just have to bury it all so you can maintain that identity I guess.
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Cause they hate black people and because they'll take lies from a strongman over hemming and hawing and PC crap from a black woman.
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You misspelled conman.
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Do you really think that all people who voted for Trump, or even most of the people who voted for Trump, hate black people?
Do you really think that all people who self-identify as "Republican", or even most of the people who self-identify as "Republican", hate black people?
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The thing is, most people do not have a clue what is going in. The republicans just have even fewer of the rest.
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The media environment is a rough one, podcasts, live streams, social media figures it's easy to stay awash in conservative messaging and the messaging is on point.
Look at any crisis and the admin pits out a message and allllllllll those channels, from Fox to Charlie Kirk to the Twitter accounts is hitting that message. Anything reported by left media can be discarded.
You can see the Epstein stuff start to poke holes in this though.
Use it? (Score:2)
Use it for what? Anything, everything?
Just go use it!
good grief
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I came to post exactly thanks. Thanks!
I know of a $15B company who recently told one of its major divisions, "We need a program to start using AI".
No word as to what to use it for.
When asked, "What problem are you trying to solve?" there was no answer.
I asked ChatGPT about banning vaccines for childre (Score:2)
No, it is not a safe idea to ban vaccines for children. Here's why:
Vaccines Are a Proven Public Health Tool
Vaccines have been thoroughly tested and are monitored for safety and effectiveness. Childhood vaccines protect against dangerous and potentially deadly diseases like:
Measles
Polio
Whooping cough (pertussis)
Mumps
Rubella
Diphtheria
Tetanus
Meningitis
Hepatitis B
And more
ChatGPT, still smarter than RFK and the Florida republican party. [1]https://www.bbc.com/news/artic... [bbc.com]
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg0e485wwwo
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Too bad RFK will claim it’s biased and will switch to Grok.
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> Too bad RFK will claim it’s biased and will switch to Grok.
Even Grok says:
> Reducing vaccine availability is generally a bad idea. Vaccines prevent millions of deaths annually—smallpox alone was eradicated, saving countless lives. The WHO estimates vaccines prevent about 6 million deaths yearly from diseases like measles, polio, and influenza. Lowering access increases risks of outbreaks, especially for vulnerable populations like children or the immunocompromised. For example, the 2019 measles resurgence in the U.S. was linked to vaccine hesitancy and reduced uptake.
Now, you can generally steer LLMs to produce a more biased output with appropriate prompting. "From the perspective of an anti-vaxxer, what are some of the reasons why one might oppose vaccine mandates?" will get you in the talking points ballpark. And if you want something more RFK-ish, just add "stark raving lunatic" to the prompt.
We come to to real reason at end of summary (Score:2)
"These types of systems have been shown to be biased when they've been tried, and result in fewer patients getting the care they need."
Just like other for profit health care systems have been developed to deny care. Our current regime is out to kill all poor people.
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And keep redefining "poor"-status when the threat of running out of poor people looms?
Idiocy (Score:2)
RFK and most of the Trump administration don’t understand how LLMs work, they just assume it’s magically smarter than they are so they are content asking it questions and following it like an Oracle.
Nothing good will come of this. Once it tells RFK that ibuprofen causes autism and suggests putting antipsychotic meds into the water supply, he will follow it, because it’s “smarter” than he is.
Incoming (Score:2)
How long until Elon sues?
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beat me to it