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

submitted 1 day ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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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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[–] 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 23 hours ago

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