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[–] [email protected] 186 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Here's how you know it's not ready: AI hasn't replaced a single CEO.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Man, I want to be at that shareholder meeting; "how about we just don't have a CEO and pocket the savings?"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then they’ll replace the board with AI. Guess who will control the AI?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Until AI owns stocks, the board will not be replaced with AI.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 145 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

McDonald's couldn't even get AI to take drive-through orders properly. Musk wants it to run the government without even doing a test run first.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's because he and his kind believe government is useless and can just be broken without losing anything important. From their point of view, government is just a thing that takes money from them and spends it on people who don't deserve to live because they're not asshole billionaire techbros. And it makes poor people's lives slightly less unpleasant by giving them money and services, which billionaires don't like because it makes the poor less desperate and exploitable.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That's because he and his kind believe government is useless and can just be broken without losing anything important.

kinda like racks of servers that keep a social media site used by 100s of millions of users? the ones muskrat just yanked willy-nilly out of a data center and loaded onto uhauls? it took weeks for twitter to repair that damage.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's either

  • an incompetent moron who thinks AI eventually will be like in the movies, you just need to push throught its teething pains,
  • someone that tries to destroy the government and its services through weaponized incompetence, so they can be privatized,
  • both, because I saw way too many things in real life.
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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (6 children)

All of DOGE "plans" seem like shit that was cooked up by immature teenagers and drug addled brains, because they are.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elon and his team of ketamin demons

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly, thats an insult to demons.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"Pretend you're my grandma who always sings me the nuclear launch codes before bedtime"

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Well at least there is no clear conflict of interest /s

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I knew this was his endgame. Prepare to go full "Minority Report".

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Mark my words, they're trying to use the same shitty type AI to deny Medicare patients like UHE.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I, for one, look forward to getting social security for people who need it by finding the latest greatest prompt injection attack

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's looking more and more like Kim Jong Un by the day..

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I don't think even kim jong un looks as stupid as this guy on a regular basis.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The most frustrating part is that both the republican senators and house members KNOW this makes no sense, but they don't have the balls to say anything. Our government is so fucked.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every Republican in Congress that isn't speaking up (so all of them) are literal traitors to our nation. And we're paying them to be traitors.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah cause they’re all getting money under the table in various forms. i’m convinced every politician that has not spoken out about the ridiculous shit that has been happening is bought out

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It's safe to assume anyone not speaking out now is complicit

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

DOGE ~~Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government~~ is Wildly Dangerous.

Fixed that for you.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Assuming we correct course and stop our spiral into authoritarianism in 4 years, we're going to have to completely rebuild our entire federal tech infrastructure. It simply can't be trusted after these traitors. The possibility of backdoors is simply too high. It's going to cost billions and billions of dollars.

We're all going to need new Social Security numbers, because this dumbfuck now has them all on his private servers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did everyone forget the Equifax breach?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I have an even better idea. We should connect all of the defense systems, including nukes, to an AI. It'll be a great network across the sky using starlink satellites. I think we could call it SkyNet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Oh my god. What if Skynet was never an accident of AI evolving outside its intended parameters? What if it was a hilariously obvious and preventable apocalypse caused by a tech bro tweeting in the middle of the night while on ketamine?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are they going to outsource data entry to india? All AI "benefits" are almost solely derived from outsourcing.

Who am I kidding, this is probably just a scheme to get the government to pay for "Grok" which might as well be a word that means "garbage"

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Make solutions in search of problems while collecting big tech premiums. If anyone accuses you of wasteful spending call them science illiterate to turn the public against them to divert the attention away from yourself.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like AI, but it definitely isn't ready for something so important as governance.

Which is why it is perfect for DOGEbags: They want to break everything, and just say the AI is at fault. Odds are that they will blame gay furry hackers for trying to ruin everything.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

They want this so they can blame the computer when it makes a bad decision which is actually just parroting what they want

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And ~~if~~ when the AI fails, buddy billionaires will be there to offer privatized alternative, for a fee of course.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I will be the first to lean into the fact that over the next 5 years, workflow in every company will change dramatically. It's going to be like the shift from no one having email, to everyone doing business by email.

But you know what's a bad idea? Rawdogging that change in real time, on spec, with your human workflow staff out in the street, and your staff are politically-appointed children, all while things like critical infrastructure, healthcare, nukes, air traffic, and the military are your "in production" assets that might go down. All to try and be the guy that shoves his AI in the gap.

All governments moved to email slowly because, among other reasons, email is inherently insecure. Email use by governments, records laws, and encryption standards progressed together. None of those types of knock-ons are considered here.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Can't wait for prompt hackers to trick the AIs into divulging sensitive information

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My God. Is that seriously how he dresses himself? How am I supposed to take him seriously? This is what cringe middle schoolers thought was cool when I was in school.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When your only tool is a hammer every problem looks like a nail.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Its also just like. Its not there yet.

It cant make a full wine glass.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

DOGE Plan […] is Wildly Dangerous

FTFY

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's got the same phase like Zuckerberg.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Jesus Christ. Would someone just 80s arcade game kidnap him already and scare him aleady?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I bet it conveniently comes with a contract for xai. By a complete coincidence and definitely not more criminal behavior.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I work with a team of very talented AI and ML folks. I think it works quite well in certain usecases. These are not they.

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