• teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Probublica did a piece on something similar, they just used llm’s to flag words that they considered woke, and in the process cancelled a bunch of grants that had nothing at all to do with what they were targeting. They couldn’t be bothered to actually check the work of the llm.

    Shocking that these fascist clowns aren’t good at governing even for their own ill ends.

    Honestly I don’t think this is the article but idk it’s similar, this is just in regards to veterans affairs. https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia

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      54 minutes ago

      Shocking that these fascist clowns aren’t good at governing even for their own ill ends.

      You’re missing the point of the exercise. They didn’t want to govern - they wanted to break shit.

      Musk went in with the attitude “we will cut everything we have an excuse to cut, and then if one of our political allies objects to a cut, we’ll put it back”.

      And DOGE implemented that plan perfectly.

      They cut a bunch of grants that had nothing to do with “wokeness” because their goal was to cut as many grants as possible, no matter what they were for. The LLM was there as a propaganda tool - it let them falsely claim they were only cutting “woke” grants. It was there to give DOGE an excuse. The fact that it was wildly inaccurate was the reason they used it.

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      19 hours ago

      Probublica did a piece on something similar, they just used llm’s to flag words that they considered woke, and in the process cancelled a bunch of grants that had nothing at all to do with what they were targeting. They couldn’t be bothered to actually check the work of the llm.

      The point was to break things in general while claiming they had specific targeted goals so they could continue the ‘government doesn’t work’ narrative for future budget cuts. Playing the part of a bull in a china shop was the intent and they have already done the damage.

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        19 hours ago

        Quite so. Although the real point was to secretly copy all government agency data to Thiel’s secret data banks, and whomever else. Musk was just the front man (clown,) thiel is the brains, and yarvin and their pals.

        All those doge kids were likely recruited from their drug and sex fueled parties, and groomed for betraying america.

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      Nobody competent wants to work for these people so they’re left with opportunists who couldn’t find a career otherwise.

      The DOJ can’t hire lawyers, it was previously a prestigious career path where people would accept paycuts for the opportunity.

      It’s a metaphorical clown show. It reminds me of this scene in Chernobyl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idb_qsAAe1c