Summary
Critics accused Trump and his administration of using ChatGPT to create its new tariff formula, which mirrors AI-generated outputs.
Commentators highlighted that the tariffs appear based on a simplistic calculation: divide the U.S. trade deficit with a country by total imports, or default to 10%.
Analysts slammed the approach as flawed and dangerous.
Markets reacted sharply, with the S&P 500 falling over 4% and Nasdaq dropping more than 5%.
Not only that, but the table itself tells a lie.
- first column heading: “tariffs charged to the USA”
- first column content: trade deficit expressed as percentage
They needed numbers to look like other countries are mistreating the US. They made up some numbers. He went on the big screen to tell yet another lie.
For example, the average tariff on US goods in Europe until now is around 4% (probably less). He’s representing it as 39%.
Not exactly how I expected AI to kickoff the apocalypse.
I guess that’s why Musk is so fixated on his sci-fi religious trope of making a “multi-planet species”, in case he ruins this one…
They expected anything more from this moron? Hopefully not.
I didn’t think he knows how to read or use a computer. So no.
Why is it such a stretch to understand that the same mastermind behind the hurricane predicting sharpie, is using AI to turn the entire world against us?
Normal Thursday in America.
How people can liaten to him talk and think he’s smart is beyond me. In any other country, he would live under a bridge and yell at pigeons.
They don’t, they just care about hurting others. He doesn’t have to talk at all and just hint that he will “make the other people miserable”.
We are literally a Black Mirror episode watched right now in some parallel universe. Probably with the viewers going “it’s a little far fetched!”
A sharpie for hurricanes, an LLM for trade policy. What a fucking world.
Shit, just said the same thing. This is why I should cruise the comments first.
No worries, happens to me all the time.
TBF the AI might be indexing Tariff news and discussion in realtime.
The AM doesn’t seem so bad now.
TBH, if AI runs the country like it’s doing right now, we have little to fear from it being cleverer than us.
This is just AI turning on its creators to destroy them earlier than anticipated. Instead of creating terminators to physically kill them though they’re just going to financially ruin them.
That would be so cool!
It doesn’t have to be cleverer to make us miserable and take away our freedom. That’s what Trump has shown us.
Anybody remember that episode of the Dollop about slaughtering birds on some island? Least funny, most horrifying, and oh yeah. Donnie T wants in on that
that’s a good one but look for
207 - The Animal Horror of Macquarie Island (Live w/Wil Anderson)
Damn I remember that one now!
Could just be AI using his numbers as a resource.
This is literally the plot of why Dune doesn’t have thinking machines.
Warhammer too.
I found it very telling that HBO re-wrote the entire Butlerian jihad because the robots were evil, rather than the actual point where using machines to replace humans was wicked and evil
I always liked the suggestion that biggest problem wasn’t actually the machines themselves, it was humans letting the machines think for them. We’re seeing a lot of that happening now.
And the whole reason replacing humans with AI was determined to be evil was because ONE oligarch decided to offload more and more of his responsibilities to AI.
It made people’s lives way worse until ultimately he gave AI military responsibility then everything went off the rails
It’s official then: the president is an unnecessary role and can be outsourced to a computer. Too bad so sad bye Donald.
Honestly, so many companies want to start with getting rid of skilled labor and try using “AI” to write code and so on; I don’t know why the board doesn’t ask the C-suite to replace THEMSELVES with “AI” for an experiment and see how that goes instead…the cost savings would be immense and they would no longer have to deal with outsized egos, to boot.
Oh, why don’t they do this, at least in my view? Oh, probably because all these people sit on each others’ boards and they aren’t about to show what a sham C-suite work is…
LLMs are already at the point where they could replace middle management in most places. Of course that’s more of a reflection on how poor middle management is, not how good LLMs are.
And yeah the C-suite probably could be replaced too. Yeah the LLMs will hallucinate and make terrible decisions sometimes, but that’s not different than what the C-suite is already.
Wanting to replace skilled labour with AI is proof of that. They don’t know enough about what their employees do if they think an AI will work as a replacement. But if they can mange employees with an inaccurate understanding of what they do, then an AI with a inaccurate understanding of what employees could replace that manager.
I thought the penguins would be the dead giveaway
