U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

Re:U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Model... by unethical_ban on Saturday August 08, 2026 @02:44AM (#49219424)

That's interesting a locally hosted LLM would be banned. I'm assuming locally hosted is included. Do they think it's been trained to sabotage equipment?

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Re:U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Model... by SyneRyder on Saturday August 08, 2026 @03:52AM (#49219747)

I don't think we know either way, but we do know at one point Anthropic would silently sabotage requests, Stuxnet style:

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/10/if-claude-fable-stops-...

I can imagine if the US were already doing that as a safeguard, they would assume their "adversaries" (to use Anthropic language) were doing the same as well, whether that were true or not, and therefore would not trust those models even if locally hosted.

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Re:U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Model... by petcat on Saturday August 08, 2026 @10:43AM (#49222305)

Locally running LLM means nothing because "open weight" models are still inscrutable.

It's like bringing a dog home from the rescue and just hoping that it doesn't have the tendency to bite kids in the face. You just can't know. All you can do is try to add some new training telling it not to bite kids.

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