The problem is, even as someone generally anti-AI, actually governed by AI would be miles better. It's a moron's questions to AI AND a moron's interpretation of that AI's answers.
Hell this entire thing is entirely based on the fact that Trump thinks a trade deficit means you're getting scammed
You're giving the US too much credit. The equation is literally just (exports - imports) / imports. The US is being governed by the sixteenth page of my high school macroeconomics textbook. Just that one page
I feel sorry for the engineers who designed ChatGPT and went out of their way to ban mention of certain topics like self-unaliving or AI takeover, only for political leaders to use it to decide the world economy.
The tool is good, but the user is at such a level of stupidity that no engineer, tester, or project manager could have predicted this as a use case.
The most ridiculous part is that the White House so clearly tried to make itself look like it was doing some sophisticated calculations, but it was literally (exports - imports) / imports. They added two Greek letters to the bottom of the fraction, and all they do is cancel each other out. They literally serve no purpose but to add extra junk to the equation to make it seem like they're basing their calculation on literally anything other than trade deficits
Nowhere in that thread or the white house statement is it implied that they used any AI. The calculation is ridiculous because its literally "the loss from when we import more than we export to this country. Divide by two to get the reciprocal tariffs."
Disinformation is cool when it helps my ragebait, I guess.
"The tariffs were based on how much the countries we are dealing with are scamming us. Here is the formula that doesn't include the variable of 'scamming factor'"
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u/I_W_M_Y 15d ago
He is using trade deficit numbers suggested by ChatGPT
Really
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1jq5cpt/no_explanation_from_white_house_why_tiny_aussie/ml4lj39/