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highplainsdem

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Mon Feb 24, 2025, 05:34 PM Feb 24

DOGE will use AI to assess responses from federal workers who were told to justify their jobs via email [View all]

Source: NBC

Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they'd accomplished over the past week are expected to be fed into an artificial intelligence system to determine whether those jobs are necessary or not, according to three sources with knowledge of the system.

The information will go into an LLM (Large Language Model), an advanced AI system that looks at huge amounts of text data to understand, generate, and process human language, the sources said. The AI system will determine whether someone’s work is mission-critical or not.

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The reason the email requested no links or attachments was because of the plan to send the information to the AI system, the sources said.

A request for comment from OPM as to whether or not humans will be involved in reviewing the responses was not answered immediately. The White House declined to comment.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-agencies-push-back-elon-musks-email-ultimatum-rcna193439



They're using an LLM. The type of AI that hallucinates.
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FFS SheltieLover Feb 24 #1
1984 has arrived.... NC DENVERPOPS Feb 25 #29
Spot-on assessment. Prof. Toru Tanaka Feb 25 #34
This is deranged. Girard442 Feb 24 #2
Let see how smart their pattern recognition is. C_U_L8R Feb 24 #3
Using an untried technology on rooting out whatever they're looking for. How screwed up is this? (me...plenty!) SWBTATTReg Feb 24 #4
I hope it opens the way for even more lawsuits. RockCreek Feb 24 #22
teach the AI a new attitude RainCaster Feb 25 #31
Ha ha heh...I suspect that this will happen too, people do tend to this sort of crap all kinds of crap back in return. SWBTATTReg Feb 25 #39
The tech dystopia is no longer on the horizon. LudwigPastorius Feb 24 #5
Right... AI, because actually reading the responses are too hard sakabatou Feb 24 #6
What could possibly go wrong? Initech Feb 24 #7
Well, of course. surrealAmerican Feb 24 #8
AI reads, but AI could also generate a 'nice' report. Aussie105 Feb 24 #9
Flood that email address with nonsense alarimer Feb 24 #10
I wonder how DOGE's AI system will know the origin of the tasking for the work each Federal employee does daily? Bluejeans Feb 24 #11
I hope a high proportion of those federal workers used AI to draw up their bullet points Emrys Feb 24 #12
In other words, Mush (N-ZA) is reading the reports himself ? eppur_se_muova Feb 24 #13
I wonder how DOGE's AI system will deal with jobs executing statutory duties? Bluejeans Feb 24 #14
AI is probably smarter than any of them Progressive dog Feb 24 #15
My preferred response: COL Mustard Feb 24 #16
LOL Auggie Feb 25 #36
They claim... Lie. Total and complete bullshit! Hugin Feb 24 #17
I emailed a response Mz Pip Feb 24 #18
It will disagree that Eurasia is at war with Oceania. Prof. Toru Tanaka Feb 25 #35
Fuck Musk DingleBerryNW Feb 24 #19
AIs capable of doing that job are pure fiction. And even then... JHB Feb 24 #20
Is he gone yet? 58Sunliner Feb 24 #21
the ketamine guy DoBW Feb 24 #23
Of fucking course. What else would you expect from Leon Skum. Karasu Feb 24 #24
This is just another reason why not one should reply to the email. It is an unproven and unauthorized evaluation Martin68 Feb 24 #25
Why didn't they just get official job codes or descriptions from the various departments? Wingus Dingus Feb 24 #26
Well now we know about their plan to replace all the nuclear weapons staff with AI. NBachers Feb 24 #27
I was lamenting that Figarosmom Feb 25 #28
And why don't the users us AI for the emails to the jackass. JohnSJ Feb 25 #30
Id be happy to have seen a universal refusal to entertain that email quakerboy Feb 25 #32
The tech giants and corporations want Americans to embrace AI Mike 03 Feb 25 #33
The constitution is in English written in longhand. tirebiter Feb 25 #37
So is it efficient to shutter federal agencies? bucolic_frolic Feb 25 #38
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