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Doge reportedly using AI tool to create ‘delete list’ of federal regulations (www.theguardian.com)
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A PowerPoint presentation made public by the Post claims that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) used the AI tool to make “decisions on 1,083 regulatory sections”, while the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau used it to write “100% of deregulations”.

The Post spoke to three HUD employees who told the newspaper AI had been “recently used to review hundreds, if not more than 1,000, lines of regulations”.

Oh, good. Everything was feeling a little too calm, so of course they're doing this right fucking now.

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Anyone who does this either doesn't understand how generative AI works or does understand and is just using it as an excuse to deregulate.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

Absolutely the second. Once something has been destroyed, it takes years or decades to get it back. They're purposely banking on going overboard, knowing full well it will collapse all the institutions and that repairing that can't occur at the same pace.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It is the second thing. They could just delete the regulations they don't like outright, inserting AI into the process is just to pretend it was some logical process.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 16 points 16 hours ago

Yes. That's what AI actually adds - plausible deniability.