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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.

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[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago
[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 32 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

You’re not the only one.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago

lol I bet this idiocy is even beyond Putin's wildest dreams.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

proprietary chatbot

this won't end well.

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

So, what, we're just full blown speedrunning the apocalypse now, huh?

[–] hapablap@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Where do I buy stock in the federal government. That shits going to the moon!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I know you jest, but treasury bonds...

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 points 15 hours ago

How do I short this?

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

If you feel these solutions can replace the marketing team, your marketing team wasn't very effective to begin with.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 16 hours ago

Yes, that's the marketing team.

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 21 hours ago

I'm sorry. I didn't want to make it sound as if I think they are competent. I really do not.

[–] 4oreman@lemy.lol 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

who let a brown woman in there

[–] locolangosta@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago

She's actually invisible to them.