MODEL_CARDS.md

Model Cards — AI Components

This document describes all AI-related components used in Federal FOIA Intelligence Search.

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Model Name

General-Purpose Large Language Model (LLM)
(Provided via Hugging Face / OpenAI runtime)

⚠️ The application does not ship or host its own trained model.

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Intended Use

Allowed Uses

• Summarization of publicly released FOIA records
• Contextual explanation of document metadata
• Research assistance for journalists, academics, and legal professionals

Explicitly Disallowed Uses

• Legal advice
• Evidence generation
• Intelligence analysis
• Surveillance, profiling, or targeting
• Automated decision-making

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Training Data Summary

• Model training data is external to this application
• This application does not train, fine-tune, or adapt models
• User inputs are not retained for training

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Input Data Constraints

• Public FOIA metadata
• Optional, user-approved PDF text extraction
• User-supplied questions only

No ingestion of:

• Private data
• Classified information
• Authentication-protected materials

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Output Constraints

• Outputs are explicitly labeled as AI-generated
• Outputs are citation-anchored
• Outputs include an integrity hash
• Outputs are not persisted

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Risk Mitigation

Risk	Mitigation
Hallucination	Citation anchoring + disclosure
Over-reliance	Warnings + opt-in
Data leakage	No persistence
Misuse	Feature gating

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Ethical Considerations

This AI component is intentionally:

• Non-autonomous
• Non-persistent
• User-controlled
• Auditable

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Limitations

• May misinterpret scanned PDFs
• Does not validate document authenticity
• Cannot access non-public records

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Contact

For AI safety inquiries:
Project Maintainer: Ezra Godschild