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%.
I knew it when I heard that countries with no exports were being teriffed.
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%.
TBH, if AI runs the country like it’s doing right now, we have little to fear from it being cleverer than us.
It doesn’t have to be cleverer to make us miserable and take away our freedom. That’s what Trump has shown 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!
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!
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…
The AM doesn’t seem so bad now.
They expected anything more from this moron? Hopefully not.
I didn’t think he knows how to read or use a computer. So no.
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!”
I am starting to feel we live in a cookie and this is our eternal punishment.
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.
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”.
This is literally the plot of why Dune doesn’t have thinking machines.
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
Warhammer too.
#Exclude RussiaWhy go through the effort to put 0 population Heard Island and McDonald Islands?
It’s because the entire penguin species is plotting to overthrow the United States, and by extension, overthrow Trump. Obviously, Trump had to show the penguins that he isn’t going to tolerate their interference.
I, for one, welcome His Majesty Emperor Penguin.
He has my sword!
He stole your sword?
He purchased the sword which resulted in a trade deficit so he started imposing tariffs.
I guess it prevents the penguins and seals from running a lucrative business rebranding Chinese gadgets.
They are so fucking stupid.
“Make a list of every country that runs a trade deficit.”
“Now apply that formula you suggested.”
“Now write up a draft executive order that would make it all happen. Use some spelling mistakes so we can track leaks.”
they probably prompted to list all territories and didn’t go to the trouble of deleting unpopulated islands
They don’t know enough about the world to know which ones to remove.
Except Russia, the skipped Russia.
I’m fairly certain it’s too “flood the zone with bullshit”, straight out of the Steve Bannon playbook. It’s so ridiculous that this is what we’re wasting our time on. Instead of discussing all the other real insane things.
there is a wikipedia article. they are a ‘territory’. they took a list of countries and territories, added basic trade data for each, and then they copy/pasted simple formulas down a couple of columns. the whole thing was probably concocted in notepad and excel in half an hour.
Giving them too much credit. They probably just had ChatGPT do everything.
Trump’s people are stupid and lazy.
did you see the bit where the diaper-in-chief recognized Taiwan as a separate country?
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AI: Artificial Idiot
AI: Actual Idiot
No. He’s legit an idiot.
American Idiot
Can you hear the sound of hysteria?
All across the idiot America.
