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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by dekhn on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:27AM (#31849566)
You misunderstand. The NSA went out of their way to tap Google's lines outside of the US, which made the leadership at Google furious. It accelerated the work to encrypt international fiber (I think many people were really bothered by the tcpdump of a bigtable RPC containing a user ID). I was at a conference shortly after an saw a SVP rip an NSA rep to pieces.

If Google is doing anything that is required of them legally as a US corp, I don't have a problem with that.

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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by waffleiron on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:34AM (#31849657)
That's what Google claims, however the leaked slides claimed "direct access".

edit: Does it really matter if they setup an FTP server instead of direct access, when we know a request can literally ask for "all" data (see Verizon).

> When required to comply with these requests, we deliver that information to the US government — generally through secure FTP transfers and in person," Google spokesman Chris Gaither told Wired, among other news outlets. [1]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/googl...

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Re:YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters by dekhn on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:44AM (#31849798)
right, you're discussing the mechanism by which Google shares information with the US government- when required by law.

These systems don't give access to "all" data. Telephone companies are different- AT&T had a long standing, off the books agreement with US intelligence agencies (see Idea Factory for a fact-based discussion of what AT&T did) to share large amounts of information illegally.

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