Elon Musk's "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE), using Meta Platforms' open-source AI model for office work, has raised concerns about data security and privacy

BlockBeats News, May 23rd, according to materials reviewed by the well-known U.S. online magazine Wired, the Department of General Services (DOGE) under the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) tested and used Meta's Llama 2 model to categorize and organize federal employee responses to an email titled "Fork in the Road."

It is worth noting that although Meta has introduced more advanced Llama 3 and Llama 4 models, DOGE still used Llama 2. Elon Musk's artificial intelligence model Grok was not available to DOGE for the task at that time in January. Since Grok was still a proprietary model at that time, it was not open for external use.

Wired reported that in the future, DOGE may rely more frequently on the Grok model. The Verge also noted that Microsoft announced this week that it will host the xAI's Grok 3 model on its Azure AI Foundry platform, indicating that these models will be open to the public and able to support more practical applications.

Legislators emphasized that DOGE's use of AI systems to analyze federal employees' emails raises "significant security concerns" and lacks transparency. Over 40 legislators wrote to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought in April requesting an investigation into DOGE's AI usage. They warned that this use could pose "serious security risks" and might "impede the proper adoption of AI." U.S. lawmakers are also concerned that Musk may increasingly use his own models to benefit from government data that his competitors cannot access, potentially exposing the data to risks of leakage. (Jinse)