cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/20166418
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are attempting to enact what some experts have called the “largest job cut in American history“—but don’t worry, these geniuses have a solution to pick up the significant amount of slack caused by letting go of tens of thousands of domain experts and civil servants all at once: a chatbot.
According to Wired, DOGE has given about 1,500 employees at the US General Services Administration, the agency that manages federal real estate and oversees most government contracts, access to a proprietary chatbot called GSAi.
Is it OK for me to say that I have violent fantasies about Elon Musk? If I ever met him it would take real self control not to harm him
proprietary chatbot
this won’t end well.
It’s just an open source bot that Elon had his people wrap in a script that randomly replaces its actual answer with “Elon Rules! 🎸🎶”.
So, now it’s “proprietary” and he can charge the government 3X what we had been paying the fired people.
who let a brown woman in there
She’s actually invisible to them.
The only positions in my company you could easily replace with AI would be marketing, I guess. And they are the ones using it the most anyway. Maybe middle management, besides stressing everyone and creating fancy slideshows, I don’t see much value in them.
That’s if you were trying to match AI to the tasks it’s somewhat suited for. That implies logic. DOGE has done little to suggest they think that deeply about anything. They’re in there replacing the legal team with a chatbot
I’m sorry. I didn’t want to make it sound as if I think they are competent. I really do not.
