Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) uses Meta Platforms open-source AI models to assist in office work, raising concerns about data security and privacy

According to BlockBeats, on May 23rd, materials reviewed by the renowned American online magazine Wired showed that personnel from DOGE's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) tested and used Meta's Llama 2 model to categorize and organize responses from federal employees 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 uses Llama 2. However, Musk's artificial intelligence model Grok was not yet open in January, so it was not used by DOGE to handle the task at that time. Due to the fact that Grok was still a proprietary model at the time and had not yet been made available for public use. Wired reported that in the future, DOGE may rely more frequently on the Grok model. The Verge pointed out that Microsoft announced this week that it will host xAI's Grok 3 models on its Azure AI Foundry platform, which means these models will be open to the public and able to support more practical uses. Legislators emphasize that DOGE's use of AI systems to analyze emails of federal employees raises "significant security concerns" and lacks transparency. More than 40 legislators wrote to Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, in April, requesting an investigation into DOGE's use of AI. They warned that this usage could pose "serious security risks" and could "hinder the appropriate adoption of AI". US lawmakers are also concerned that Musk may use more of his own models to benefit from government data that his competitors cannot access and could put the data at risk of leakage. (Golden Ten)