The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don’t worry – we captured backups
“all-in-one API” that will allow agencies to connect their systems to models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic
This is a huge red flag to me.
It means:
- They are ignorant of existing APIs and standards that are exactly this. Uh, MCP or OpenAI API? Which everyone already uses?
- They have zero interesting in models they can host themselves, or from cheaper providers. Or, heaven forbit, finetune for their own work.
- They have zero interest in actually useful tools. Like, say, SGLang’s cached hosting and fast fill-in-the-blanks formatting which is perfect for say, processing government forms.
In other words, it’s just full corporate AI Bro capture. And shitty.
One of the consequences is that it will be very bad, unfortunately.
What’s sad is that this is a consequence not just of this admins shittiness but of a long enshittification of our government.
Not only do government jobs pay a mediocre salary until you get really really far in the org, a fact that only gets worse as the idea of a middle class lifestyle gets gutted, but for decades now, working a government job has become less and less prestigious. It used to be that there were always plenty of loonies who found pride in being a “public servant” and thought the best place to use their genius was in government.
Now, as we see, there’s no one in these positions with even cursory knowledge of how these programs work.
And there’s definitely no millennials or zoomers fresh out of tech school that would debase themselves to working in government who would be able see these flaws in two seconds.
I dream of the day the People collectively have had enough and just drag the bastards into the street and beat them until they can bastard no more.
One can dream…
He’s hiding behind glass. He won’t know fresh air ever again.
The stupid is intensifying. They both a) know they can’t run a government and b) are in a rush to make something that will do all the work so they can sit back and rake in the money. No, this is not about actually making the country better because objectively LLMs suck and were never intended for such tasks.
They are too generic and lack the specialization needed to do such tasks. It will only end in disaster
Speedrun to Idiocracy.
A new PB!
Just waiting for the first decision made because of AI hallucinations.
With this government? You might get disappeared to a black site because a LLM “decided” that you probably are a terrorist…
What do we want? sKYNET!!!
When do we want it? As soon as it can beat beginner atari chess?!?!
Only silver lining right now is these idiots might just be too stupid to pull off creating their evil empire.
This reminds me of an interview with a Ukrainian soldier, who said of the Russians “we are lucky they are so fucking stupid”. If only that translated into less air superiority by Russia, because that’s where Ukraine struggles.
Second term same as the first?
That’s actually why I’d say the GOP is the “lesser evil” compared to Dems, because they ultimately want the same thing but the Dems are competent enough to pull it off without people noticing.
For example, everyone’s rightly going after Trump’s deportation schemes, but very few of them realize Trump is still isn’t keeping up with Biden’s deportation numbers. So the Dems end up being better fascists by doing it quietly.
I don’t remember when the Democrats deported my neighbor or when they called self-proclaimed Nazis good guys or when they wanted to take away food stamps from single mothers or when they wanted to make voting harder or when they didn’t want to ban child marriage or when they wanted to take away the only source of food and housing for children, people with disabilities, and the elderly or when they wanted to ban vaccines or when they wanted to ban abortion or when they wanted to make being queer a child sex crime or when they ignored all of science, but I guess they were just too smart to do any of that.
Then you have a terrible memory, or more likely just don’t pay attention when Democrats are in office.
I’m about to come back and edit multiple sources into this. One sec.Done. Thanks for making my point exactly. Dems are more dangerous because y’all are lulled to sleep when they’re in office. By your own admission, you straight up don’t even notice when a Dem does this shit.https://www.latimes.com/nation/immigration/la-na-immigration-judge-20160306-story.html
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/MIGRATION-DEPORTATIONS/akpeoeoerpr/
https://theintercept.com/2022/02/18/ukraine-weapons-neo-nazis-bob-menendez/
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/azov-ban-lifted/
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/30/politics/may-11-end-of-covid-and-public-health-emergencies
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/msna263456
https://dcist.com/story/23/08/07/dc-democrats-sue-to-stop-ranked-choice-voting-initiative/
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/29/1068731487/delta-ceo-asks-cdc-to-cut-quarantine
https://jacobin.com/2022/05/biden-wall-street-medicare-for-profit-private-equity
Don’t hide behind the shitty half-assed news reports, you coward. Just name the actual Democrat that fired their vaccine board, so we can end this. Just name the actual Democrat that banned abortion federally, instead of posting fifteen useless articles. Just name the Democrat that kept child marriage protected because it’s easier. Just name the Democrat that deported my neighbor, specifically, since you seemed to have known him. Just name the Democrat that implemented a voting suppression measure, assuming you can find one within the last 25 years, instead of you saying that’s the same thing as ranked choice, which have been challenged by Republicans in every single instance (and this is the only instance you found for Democrats, if you could call it that, lol). Just name the Democrat that called queer people slurs openly and wants them tried for child sex crimes.
It should be so easy, right? If they’re the same, just fucking name them.
‘You must name the person who banned my specific neighbor, because I refuse to acknowledge the existence of anything that does affect me personally and directly.’
Project 2025 is the lesser evil? Compared to?
Compared to Dems doing the same thing covertly. As I explained in the comment you’re replying to.
“explained” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting.
You papered something, but I didn’t see an explanation per se.
Try again? Start by pointing to where the Dems started their insurrection, so I can compare.
Fascism is not measured by immigration alone.
‘Well hold on, it’s not fascist when Dems do it.’
I consider this as the final confirmation that he wants to bring the government down.
Trump just wants people bowing to him. His handlers are the ones with real plans. Don’t let Peter Thiel run away to Argentina.
Trump is the disposable face of something much darker. He is a tool.
More like don’t let them bring Argentina here. Their current president is an ancap and the inspiration behind doge.
DB_PASS=“postgres” 😬😬😬
I mean it is called “.env_example” afterall… Probably a env file to use for testing, no?
I’m really shocked by the confidence people have here with clearly zero knowledge.
“.env_example” is literally just the example/template which is only updated if new “config” items are needed and it doesn’t contain actual secrets.
Developers copy “.env”/prod and “.env_local” files, which are used for the specific environments. These are in .gitignore so that they’re not accidentally pushed to .git.
For production the “.env” is generated during deployment from secrets in a locked up environment. (I mean they COULD fuck this up, but there’s no evidence of this AFAIK)
The example postgres password is simply a “hello world” type password that is often used when running a local docker image of the DB so you can get a full dev environment running in a couple minutes, as mentioned in the readme.md: https://github.com/gsa-tts-archived/ai-gov-api
It’s not even a testing environment, it’s a temporary local/dev DB just so you can test your code.
I am NOT defending this project, but holy shit this thread is full of misinformation and I had to correct this.
so, uh… can you ELI5 this for those of us that don’t know anything?
The person you replied to doesn’t know what they’re talking about. It’s just an example password used for running a local empty DB for development and has nothing to do with production or even test databases.
You can see this in the readme: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgsa-tts-archived%2Fai-gov-api
See my longer previous comment if you want to know more. And again, not defending this project, but this whole comment chain was just misinformation.
The type of database they are using is called “postgres”, which is also it’s password.
They should’ve used “1234”
That’s the combo on my luggage!
I will assume this is just the password they use in development. But they should probably be using pglite.
It’s like having your password set to “password”
Postgres, SQLite, etc are tools for database management, things like user data, application data and so on are collected here.
Edit: the
DB_PASS=“postgres”is the default password when setting up a Postgres database.Take Reddit’s Karma system or Upvotes/Downvotes for example, they’re stored in a database and however Reddit wants to utilize that data Postgres makes it easy to call upon it.
I’m sure others can give more detailed responses, I’m typing this out in a rush.
Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example. They have a fascinating origin story with respect to data mart. Early Reddit had just two tables: Thing and Data, where Thing was metadata about types and Data was a three column table with: type, id, and value.
Wrap your head around that. All of Reddit, two tables. A database couldn’t be less normalized (final boss of normal forms) and they did it in an rdb. So horrific it’s actually kind of cool.
Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example.
I was in a rush! Honestly it was the quickest thing I could come up with on the spot, plus database tools are something I lack a lot of knowledge about so I really couldn’t go in depth even if I wanted to.
Appreciate the history behind Reddit’s database!
Is this real lmao
Unfortunately no, it seems. Somebody at least had the bare minimum sense to let GitHub generate the .gitignore for them, which includes most common environment files. https://github.com/gsa-tts-archived/ai.gov/blob/main/.gitignore
It’s from another repo and literally just an example env for an empty local docker DB: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgsa-tts-archived%2Fai-gov-api
It is like a bunch of evil kids are in control
It’s exactly like that.
Move fast and break things is not good when government is involved.
They are even dumber than Leslie Nielsen as American president in his parodies.
This was the feeling!!! I couldn’t put my finger on just how this entire thing felt to me, you’ve cleared the skies and allowed the light of recollection to meet my shores!
It feels like 70s-80s slapstick!
I think part of that is that it conjures up cold war era associations.
Definitely! Those “outside time and space”/“post-modern purgatory” vibes are strong nowadays. Every day feels like making busy until the storm hits.
Obligatory fuck Trump
Releasing your code and related resources is SoP.
We had a guy who fixed up no less than 20 repos in our small company cleaning up API keys that were accidentally published. This isn’t uncommon at all.
Well good luck to you guys in the US. This AI government will be extremely dangerous. An all knowing advertisement algorithm reaching deep in government data with an unsafe LLM on top? Ouch.
I want off Mr Bone’s wild ride
I hate that all of the worst things Donald is planning are slated for July 4.
I’m out of the loop; what’s being planned for the 4th of July?
That’s the deadline Donald set for the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill as well.
