DOGE Is Replacing Fired Workers With a Chatbot (gizmodo.com)

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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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[-] Battle_Masker@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

time to trick a chatbot into selling me a house for $20

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Most of the useless AI makes me giggle, because the idiots doing it will soon be fired. It will be briefly incredibly embarrassing for them before they fail upwards into a new role teaching people how to hire people to replace AI that didn't work.

But this just makes me angry. Lots of people actually need government services and don't have an alternative.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Because of course they are. Fucking techbros.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago

AI the racist replacement to qualified Humans.

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Leon Must couldn't muddle his way through a tech support phone call with his own junk

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Which chatbot is it fucking using grock?

[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Of course that's what they're gonna do.... Honestly, it wouldn't be that bad idea if you could actually trust that it was properly Aligned to benefit humankind, not to steal, then scam them.

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