Ben Wittes
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And it also includes the entire diplomatic, published diplomatic history of the United States.
It includes the entire electronic congressional record and 35,000 congressional hearings.
It includes an incredible range of stuff.
It includes every sanctions action.
It includes every...
pardon that's ever been issued.
And you can use AI to do these incredible searches of the corpus of federal government activity.
This does feel... No, it's really a... There are a lot of people who are using this stuff for ill and to undermine democracy.
And I want to use it to build tools that give journalists, researchers and just everyday citizens insight into democratically sensitive data.
And I want to do it in a fashion that is free for the public to use and that is insanely powerful.
It's wild.
And so we call it ragtime.
It is in beta right now, if you're interested.
Can you explain the name?
So RAGTIME is a pun.
RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation, which is a type of use of LLMs within limited data sets.
It also stands for Research Across Government.
And so we built, for those who are technically minded, it's basically a giant rag of government records.
And it gets bigger every day.
So yeah, so the other day I plugged into it in response to the arrest of the Olympian at the reflecting pool.
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