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%.
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%.
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.
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.
🙄 🤡 🖕 🖕
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.
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.
Why go through the effort to put 0 population Heard Island and McDonald Islands?
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.”
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.
they probably prompted to list all territories and didn’t go to the trouble of deleting unpopulated islands
Not exactly how I expected AI to kickoff the apocalypse.
#Exclude Russia
I knew it when I heard that countries with no exports were being teriffed.
TBH, if AI runs the country like it’s doing right now, we have little to fear from it being cleverer than 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!
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…
United States of Gronk
I’d rather have Gronkowski than Trump for sure
They claimed that AI was the reason so many heroes were disrespected at the Pentagon
TBF the AI might be indexing Tariff news and discussion in realtime.
I thought the penguins would be the dead giveaway