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God this is beyond ridiculous.
They used ChatGPT to sort over 1,400 National Endowment for the Humanities grants into spreadsheets. Their exact prompt to the AI was "Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with 'Yes.' or 'No.' followed by a brief explanation."
They didn't define what they meant by DEI. They just asked ChatGPT to figure it out. And then cancelled grants based on whatever it said. Probably didn't even read past the yes or no.
The government's defence was essentially ChatGPT did it, not us. When asked if he regretted people losing income, he said he didn't, because reducing the deficit was more important. When asked if they actually reduced the deficit, he admitted they did not.
They caused real harm, achieved nothing they claimed to be pursuing, and expressed zero regret about it.
Just really horrible all around.
The first DOGE team that attempted the first government agency should have been gunned down in the lobby. That was security's job, and they failed miserably. If they had done their job in the first place, America would be in a much different position now.
Same thing could be said for any of the motherfuckers who were supposed to stop all this, what the hell were they paid for?