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%.
AI: Artificial Idiot
No. He’s legit an idiot.
American Idiot
Can you hear the sound of hysteria?
All across the idiot America.
AI: Actual Idiot
United States of Gronk
I’d rather have Gronkowski than Trump for sure
Absurd. He promised to pay (but didn’t) a bunch of people to use ChatGPT to come up with his bullshit. What kind of idiot are you that you believe Donald Trump would bother to do any of this shit himself?
He’s redundant. He should be fired for efficiency.
I suppose that makes sense. How many people can, really, kiss Donald Trump’s ass?
yet something else that could be easily outsourced to AI
I’m certain so-called AI was used…
I’m equally certain Mafia Don Mangolini hasn’t the first clue how to make use of technology in any form (other than making a stupid tweet/post)…
This is another effort foisted upon us by Elonazi and/or his Department of Gratifying Elonazi children.
🙄 🤡 🖕 🖕
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…
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
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
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.
Warhammer too.
TBF the AI might be indexing Tariff news and discussion in realtime.
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.
They claimed that AI was the reason so many heroes were disrespected at the Pentagon
I thought the penguins would be the dead giveaway
Why go through the effort to put 0 population Heard Island and McDonald Islands?
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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“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.
They are so fucking stupid.
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.
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.
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”.
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!
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.
