The CIA is using generative AI as a search engine - eviltoast
  • V0ldek@awful.systems
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    4 months ago

    Iirc OpenAI uses Microsoft’s cloud?

    If so, MSFT has a special airgapped cloud specifically for USGov.

    • froztbyte@awful.systems
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      4 months ago

      tbh I personally wouldn’t expect/suspect this to be using any of the flavours of govcloud for mass-market flavours (because that has implications on staff hiring etc)

      the easy way to handle this is to have a backend/frontend separation with baseline access controlled simply by construction of routing and zone primitives. it’s relatively simple (albeit moderately involved) to do this on most cloud providers

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      4 months ago

      they probably do. I worked for a content-as-a-service company that had a contract to deliver our product, airgapped, to a three-letter agency on a regular schedule, and we were a tiny company. Microsoft’s biggest customer is probably the U.S. government; I’d be shocked if they don’t provide an in-house airgapped set of full Azure services for the entire intelligence agency system.

      • V0ldek@awful.systems
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        4 months ago

        They do. Source: I worked in at MSFT in Azure Identity. It’s completely separate, has its own rollout schedule for all products, etc.

        There’s also a physically separate cloud for China 🙃