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DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous (www.techpolicy.press)
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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 109 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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.

[–] TylerBourbon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

And Elonia can't even get rockets to not explode.

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 hours ago

“Just test in prod” - Elongated Muskrat

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 30 points 9 hours 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.
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 72 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 hours ago (1 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.

[–] artificialfish@programming.dev 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Link?

[–] mski@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It was around Sept 2023: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself

You can also just search: "Elon Musk Twitter server move" and the terms "Sacramento" or "Pocket Knife" might help.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 1 points 38 minutes ago

Hahahaha I’d forgotten about that! Man, and people unironically call him a genius still.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 hours ago

The government IS the test run.