Air Force Documents On Gen AI Test Are Just Whole Pages of Redactions 12
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), whose tagline is "Win the Fight," has paid more than a hundred thousand dollars to a company that is providing generative AI services to other parts of the Department of Defense. But the AFRL refused to say what exactly the point of the research was, and provided page after page of entirely blacked out, redacted documents in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from 404 Media related to the contract. [...] "Ask Sage: Generative AI Acquisition Accelerator," a December 2023 procurement record reads, with no additional information on the intended use case. The Air Force paid $109,490 to Ask Sage, the record says.
Ask Sage is a company focused on providing generative AI to the government. In September the company announced that the Army was implementing Ask Sage's tools. In October it achieved "IL5" authorization, a DoD term for the necessary steps to protect unclassified information to a certain standard. 404 Media made an account on the Ask Sage website. After logging in, the site presents a list of the models available through Ask Sage. Essentially, they include every major model made by well-known AI companies and open source ones. Open AI's GPT-4o and DALL-E-3; Anthropic's Claude 3.5; and Google's Gemini are all included. The company also recently added the Chinese-developed DeepSeek R1, but includes a disclaimer. "WARNING. DO NOT USE THIS MODEL WITH SENSITIVE DATA. THIS MODEL IS BIASED, WITH TIES TO THE CCP [Chinese Communist Party]," it reads. Ask Sage is a way for government employees to access and use AI models in a more secure way. But only some of the models in the tool are listed by Ask Sage as being "compliant" with or "capable" of handling sensitive data.
[...] [T]he Air Force declined to provide any real specifics on what it paid Ask Sage for. 404 Media requested all procurement records related to the Ask Sage contract. Instead, the Air Force provided a 19 page presentation which seemingly would have explained the purpose of the test, while redacting 18 of the pages. The only available page said "Ask Sage, Inc. will explore the utilization of Ask Sage by acquisition Airmen with the DAF for Innovative Defense-Related Dual Purpose Technologies relating to the mission of exploring LLMs for DAF use while exploring anticipated benefits, clearly define needed solution adaptations, and define clear milestones and acceptance criteria for Phase II efforts."
Ask Sage is a company focused on providing generative AI to the government. In September the company announced that the Army was implementing Ask Sage's tools. In October it achieved "IL5" authorization, a DoD term for the necessary steps to protect unclassified information to a certain standard. 404 Media made an account on the Ask Sage website. After logging in, the site presents a list of the models available through Ask Sage. Essentially, they include every major model made by well-known AI companies and open source ones. Open AI's GPT-4o and DALL-E-3; Anthropic's Claude 3.5; and Google's Gemini are all included. The company also recently added the Chinese-developed DeepSeek R1, but includes a disclaimer. "WARNING. DO NOT USE THIS MODEL WITH SENSITIVE DATA. THIS MODEL IS BIASED, WITH TIES TO THE CCP [Chinese Communist Party]," it reads. Ask Sage is a way for government employees to access and use AI models in a more secure way. But only some of the models in the tool are listed by Ask Sage as being "compliant" with or "capable" of handling sensitive data.
[...] [T]he Air Force declined to provide any real specifics on what it paid Ask Sage for. 404 Media requested all procurement records related to the Ask Sage contract. Instead, the Air Force provided a 19 page presentation which seemingly would have explained the purpose of the test, while redacting 18 of the pages. The only available page said "Ask Sage, Inc. will explore the utilization of Ask Sage by acquisition Airmen with the DAF for Innovative Defense-Related Dual Purpose Technologies relating to the mission of exploring LLMs for DAF use while exploring anticipated benefits, clearly define needed solution adaptations, and define clear milestones and acceptance criteria for Phase II efforts."
UFOs (Score:2)
The Orange Files (UFO's) (Score:2)
"UFO's are adducting our best pets! We need to build a big beautiful Dyson Wall around Earth, and make space aliens pay for it! This woke invasion must stop! ET is grooming our kids with drag shows [reddit.com] and turning their spelling toys into space-bound child-trafficking tweets! Tell that ugly little Bucket-Head to go home! Andromeda ain't sending their best."
By the way, tell reporters they can see the redacted parts of the report, but will have to be killed when finished.
And? (Score:3, Funny)
Did you forget to copy and paste the part of the article where you try to make a point? LOL
titles of the data (Score:3)
u.s. first strike
ussr first strike
nato / warsaw pact
far east strategy
us ussr escalation
middle east war
ussr china attack
india pakistan war
mediterranean war
hongkong variant
seato decapitating
cuban provocation
atlantic heavy
cuban paramilitary
nicaraguan preemptive
pacific territorial
burmese theaterwide
turkish decoy
angentina(sic) escalation
iceland maximum
arabian theaterwide
u.s. subversion
australian maneuver
sudan surprise
nato territorial
zaire alliance
iceland incident
english escalation
middle east heavy
mexican takeover
chad alert
saudi maneuver
african territorial
ethiopian escalation
turkish heavy
nato incursion
u.s. defense
cambodian heavy
pact medium
arctic minimal
mexican domestic
taiwan theaterwide
pacific maneuver
portugal revolution
albanian decoy
palestinian local
moroccan minimal
bavarian diversity
czech option
french alliance
arabian clandestine
gabon rebellion
northern maximum
danish paramilitary
seato takeover
hawaiian escalation
iranian maneuver
nato containment
swiss incident
cuban minimal
chad alert
iceland escalation
vietnamese retaliatio
syrian provocation
libyan local
gabon takeover
romanian war
middle east offensive
denmark massive
chile confrontation
s.african subversion
ussr alert
nicaraguan thrust
greenland domestic
iceland heavy
kenya option
pacific defense
uganda maximum
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:1)
Anything under $1 million is NOT NEWS (Score:2)
Maybe AI can unredact (Score:2)
Worth a shot, anyway!