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Judge rules DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal / The ruling restores federal grants that were shut down for ‘DEI’ prejudice. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

After being deployed from DOGE to NEH, Justin Fox used search terms, which he labeled as “Detection Codes,” to identify grants that he dubbed the “Craziest Grants” and “Other Bad Grants.” The search terms included, among other terms, “BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color),” “Minorities,” “Native,” “Tribal,” “Indigenous,” “Immigrant,” “LGBTQ,” “Homosexual,” and “Gay.” When Fox was asked whether he “r[a]n this list of words through every grant description” he received from NEH, he confirmed, “yes.”

I'm a bit at a lost for words here. That is way beyond what I was expecting.

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

Watch some footage from the interviews, it's much much worse than you think. Unimaginably bad.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

Really? That seems about par for the course.