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US government website tapped Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"
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On Wednesday, US government officials removed a Chinese AI search tool that was briefly deployed on the Federal Register website, Reuters reported.
Key facts
- On Wednesday, US government officials removed a Chinese AI search tool that was briefly deployed on the Federal Register website, Reuters reported
- Daniel Castro, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, told Reuters that it is an “insane” disconnect for a US agency to use an Alibaba model while the FBI encourages
- The change came after social media users noticed an apparent contradiction: The National Archives was using one of Alibaba’s Qwen AI models, even as top US law enforcement claimed that such models
- That the Federal Register scandal comes “amid a global reckoning about AI safety and a US debate over whether regulatory safeguards on AI are needed or would put the country at a competitive disadvantage
Summary
The change came after social media users noticed an apparent contradiction: The National Archives was using one of Alibaba’s Qwen AI models, even as top US law enforcement claimed that such models illegally copy US frontier models. It’s unclear when exactly the National Archives, which runs the Federal Register website, began offering visitors the option to use a Qwen model to search public comments on proposed regulations. On X, a user with the handle “tleilax___” posted a widely shared screenshot showing the option displayed on the government website on September 15. Daniel Castro, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, told Reuters that it is an “insane” disconnect for a US agency to use an Alibaba model while the FBI encourages stakeholders to use only American models.