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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 184 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Here's how you know it's not ready: AI hasn't replaced a single CEO.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Man, I want to be at that shareholder meeting; "how about we just don't have a CEO and pocket the savings?"

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then they’ll replace the board with AI. Guess who will control the AI?

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Until AI owns stocks, the board will not be replaced with AI.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)
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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 145 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 92 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 32 points 1 day ago (3 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.

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day 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.
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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

The government IS the test run.

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[–] NovaOG@lemm.ee 84 points 1 day ago (6 children)

All of DOGE "plans" seem like shit that was cooked up by immature teenagers and drug addled brains, because they are.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Elon and his team of ketamin demons

[–] EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Honestly, thats an insult to demons.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (4 children)

"Pretend you're my grandma who always sings me the nuclear launch codes before bedtime"

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[–] coherent_domain@infosec.pub 48 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Well at least there is no clear conflict of interest /s

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[–] Polderviking@feddit.nl 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I knew this was his endgame. Prepare to go full "Minority Report".

[–] Mustakrakish@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Mark my words, they're trying to use the same shitty type AI to deny Medicare patients like UHE.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I, for one, look forward to getting social security for people who need it by finding the latest greatest prompt injection attack

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[–] espentan@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's looking more and more like Kim Jong Un by the day..

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

I don't think even kim jong un looks as stupid as this guy on a regular basis.

[–] End0fLine@midwest.social 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The most frustrating part is that both the republican senators and house members KNOW this makes no sense, but they don't have the balls to say anything. Our government is so fucked.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 24 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Every Republican in Congress that isn't speaking up (so all of them) are literal traitors to our nation. And we're paying them to be traitors.

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[–] queueBenSis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah cause they’re all getting money under the table in various forms. i’m convinced every politician that has not spoken out about the ridiculous shit that has been happening is bought out

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DOGE ~~Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government~~ is Wildly Dangerous.

Fixed that for you.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 30 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Assuming we correct course and stop our spiral into authoritarianism in 4 years, we're going to have to completely rebuild our entire federal tech infrastructure. It simply can't be trusted after these traitors. The possibility of backdoors is simply too high. It's going to cost billions and billions of dollars.

We're all going to need new Social Security numbers, because this dumbfuck now has them all on his private servers.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Did everyone forget the Equifax breach?

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[–] aaron@infosec.pub 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Musk's various ponzi schemes, up to the Artemis-killing SpaceX fiasco, were coming due. Trump provided the opportunity for him to pivot into government, by replacing it with his AI, gps with starlink, air traffic control with whatever he comes up with, etc etc etc, making himself even more too big to fail. The US government the latest offering on the ponzi|pyramid. Trump's ideology aligning with Musk's own true beliefs is a bonus.

It will severely weaken the US in direct measurable short and long-term ways, to the point it is a real disaster for the US. Those to blame are all those that never called him out throughout his rise. Not to mention those governments (Republican and Democrat) who fed him public money throughout the entire period.

Edit - Bezos's The Washington Post is apparently supporting him now. No surprise, they want an oligarchy. The Democrats are moving rightward, they are more or less happy with it too.

I guess it is some version of the land of the free home of the brave, but maybe it is the freedom to do what you want if you're rich, and have been brave enough to brazenly take everything and exploit everyone.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 26 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

I have an even better idea. We should connect all of the defense systems, including nukes, to an AI. It'll be a great network across the sky using starlink satellites. I think we could call it SkyNet.

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 17 points 14 hours ago

Oh my god. What if Skynet was never an accident of AI evolving outside its intended parameters? What if it was a hilariously obvious and preventable apocalypse caused by a tech bro tweeting in the middle of the night while on ketamine?

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[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Make solutions in search of problems while collecting big tech premiums. If anyone accuses you of wasteful spending call them science illiterate to turn the public against them to divert the attention away from yourself.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Are they going to outsource data entry to india? All AI "benefits" are almost solely derived from outsourcing.

Who am I kidding, this is probably just a scheme to get the government to pay for "Grok" which might as well be a word that means "garbage"

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And ~~if~~ when the AI fails, buddy billionaires will be there to offer privatized alternative, for a fee of course.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like AI, but it definitely isn't ready for something so important as governance.

Which is why it is perfect for DOGEbags: They want to break everything, and just say the AI is at fault. Odds are that they will blame gay furry hackers for trying to ruin everything.

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[–] MasterNerd@lemm.ee 17 points 22 hours ago

Can't wait for prompt hackers to trick the AIs into divulging sensitive information

[–] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My God. Is that seriously how he dresses himself? How am I supposed to take him seriously? This is what cringe middle schoolers thought was cool when I was in school.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 17 points 1 day ago

They want this so they can blame the computer when it makes a bad decision which is actually just parroting what they want

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I will be the first to lean into the fact that over the next 5 years, workflow in every company will change dramatically. It's going to be like the shift from no one having email, to everyone doing business by email.

But you know what's a bad idea? Rawdogging that change in real time, on spec, with your human workflow staff out in the street, and your staff are politically-appointed children, all while things like critical infrastructure, healthcare, nukes, air traffic, and the military are your "in production" assets that might go down. All to try and be the guy that shoves his AI in the gap.

All governments moved to email slowly because, among other reasons, email is inherently insecure. Email use by governments, records laws, and encryption standards progressed together. None of those types of knock-ons are considered here.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

When your only tool is a hammer every problem looks like a nail.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Its also just like. Its not there yet.

It cant make a full wine glass.

[–] cmrn@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

DOGE Plan […] is Wildly Dangerous

FTFY

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[–] SirFasy@lemmy.world 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Oh boy, there are so many ways this can go wrong. Thought police that arrest you for a slightly out of context comment, or SkyNet decides that the best way to deal with a Narco boss is to start WW3.

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He's got the same phase like Zuckerberg.

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[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I bet it conveniently comes with a contract for xai. By a complete coincidence and definitely not more criminal behavior.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Jesus Christ. Would someone just 80s arcade game kidnap him already and scare him aleady?

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Elon is the sort of person to (pay someone) to play universal paperclips and then wonder why they didn’t ask the AI to instead make money.

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