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[–] merc 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Strongman dictators in developing countries who take power in a coup have more coherent economic policies than the USA.

I strongly suspect that ChatGPT was involved in this tariff plan in some way. Either generating the list of territories they'd be imposing tariffs on, or coming up with the formula, or who knows what. It's not that I don't think Trump's minions are stupid, it's that I think they're the kind of stupid that looks at ChatGPT like the apes in 2001 looked at the monolith.

[–] booly 3 points 3 days ago

the list of territories they'd be imposing tariffs on

Yeah, they basically used the list of Internet top level domains for "countries" instead of the State Department's own list of nations we have relationships with, or the UN member nations.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Either generating the list of territories they'd be imposing tariffs on, or coming up with the formula, or who knows what

There have been a couple new articles I seen that say basically that they used GenAI for the formula, probably Grok

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://lemmy.world/post/27735214 was the one I saw, but it is one of those articles "based on [social media] users