alt Hacker News> No one is required to change the "ideology" of an LLM, although they might not be able to sell it to the government.
It takes hundreds of millions of dollars to train a model. If a large customers, the government, says they won't buy it if it doesn't adhere to a set of standards, no one is "required" to change, but it's a pretty heavy hand on the lever. It's like having a job. No one is "required" to have a job, but having one gets you money, and having money is pretty important to modern life.
So what? No business has a legal right to sell their products to the government. The LLM vendors should probably find cheaper, more efficient ways to train their models rather than depending on government contracts. If your business lives or dies based on a single large customer then you don't have a viable business in the first place.
I know lots of people who have money but no job.