This is an important article about DOGE from @wired.com , but I hope there's a part 2 that focuses on a few important questions: First, which AI tools are they using, and what's the process for determining that? Quite obviously, this will be a corrupt process designed to pay-off Trump's oligarchs. - ThreadSky

secretsandlaws.bsky.social • 12 hours ago

This is an important article about DOGE from @wired.com , but I hope there's a part 2 that focuses on a few important questions:

First, which AI tools are they using, and what's the process for determining that? Quite obviously, this will be a corrupt process designed to pay-off Trump's oligarchs.

Reposted from WIRED

Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

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jamesearlweeks.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Thanks for posting

The main thing to remember about artificial intelligence [AI] is that it is software created by humans. Like any software, AI can be tweaked in order to produce desired outputs.

The utility of AI depends on the people who use it and how they use it. (kind of like guns).

yastreblyansky.bsky.social•42 minutes ago

Getting a lot of impressions from the results we've seen so far that it's mainly hugely massive searching, from the USAID search for programs with "inclusive" or "equity" in their names to taxpayer IDs with birthdates earlier than 1920 to names in flight rosters of people with lapsed tourist visas.

cmaxmost.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Eventually, the AI will fail because it's not ready to do what they wanted to do and because the people who are doing it, don't know what the fuck they're doing we will have to recover manually and it will set the AI industry back a decade or so

izzyt42.bsky.social•11 hours ago

So, was it Musk's AI that decided to send a very modestly successful artist I know a $150,000 tax bill?

tazmah.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I'd like to know how to sue to get compensated for having my data, privacy, & personal information pillaged. Musk owes the US people billions of dollars before he and his minions go off to jail.

pinknoiz.bsky.social•6 hours ago

@skyview.social unroll this thread on DOGE and AI

tomlavan.bsky.social•5 hours ago

Of course it’s Grok. Has to be. Musk is solely focused on enriching himself as he burns the federal government down.

dianavillafane.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Why does Bluesky not have an angry emoji????

emwhitley.bsky.social•12 hours ago

You have put into words all the thoughts that have been going thru my mind since this ambush coup by Musk.

My question:
Is there going to be any way to determine if the money saved by firing all those people will simply be re-routed to pay a private company for use of their AI product?

essaywells.bsky.social•6 hours ago

On current evidence, their tool is ctrl-F plus lying about how smart they are.

charlene411.bsky.social•7 hours ago

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justvisiting74.bsky.social•7 hours ago

These are all crucial questions. I really want to know the answers.

I fear we will find that Doge just ran everything through Grok under T&C that allowed them to add our info to their 'training data'.

secretsandlaws.bsky.social•12 hours ago

So I'd expect we'll see Palantir, Oracle, and X/Grok come out as the big winners, even if their products are inferior. And don't think that Musk's attempt to acquire OpenAI is unrelated.

But under federal procurement rules, this work should all be put out to public bid. Is that happening?

canuparadigm.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Rules? 😵‍💫

secretsandlaws.bsky.social•12 hours ago

There were gigantic fights about winning the contracts to become the cloud providers for the IC, DOD, and other agencies, which ended up in litigation. While some of the individual agency contracts with AI tools are likely smaller in $, being able to say you're the gov's chosen AI tool is huge.

secretsandlaws.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The government can bypass these open bidding rules by "sole sourcing" contracts in certain situations, but those justifications would not apply here. But this Administration obviously doesn't care about following rules, so who knows? In any event, rest assured that this will be a corrupt process.

secretsandlaws.bsky.social•12 hours ago

In addition, agency budgets are tight & limited in what they can spend money on. Where are they getting the money for this & are they abiding by the constraints Congress put on it? Budgets are normally allocated by agency, for each agency, so I doubt there's a "whole of government" AI fund on there.

secretsandlaws.bsky.social•12 hours ago

So put this all in the "corrupt and likely illegal" procurement process bucket of questions.

Second, there are even more important questions about what they are going to do with all this data and AI tools, beyond using it as an excuse to fire workers and to falsely claim they've uncovered fraud.

secretsandlaws.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Those questions have been asked, but not answered so far.

Finally, there's all the questions about what security, privacy, and outcome protections they are putting in place. Private companies wrestle with this questions before employing AI tools. Do you think they are doing this? Certainly not.

mrmoa.bsky.social•7 hours ago

As someone on the receiving end of this bullshit, it sure looks like their “AI” is keyword searches.

cutterjohn.bsky.social•6 hours ago

📌

lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social•3 hours ago

"The notion that Musk would train Grok 3, the latest iteration of his AI, with data uncovered through DOGE, is “unequivocally false,” Leavitt told us. It’s the first definitive answer on this front."

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/musk-data-ai-00205259#:~:text=The%20notion%20that%20Musk%20would,definitive%20answer%20on%20this%20front.

lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Are they implementing AI-based surveillace capabilities with access to comprehensive citizen data? Creating preferential procurement channels that favor specific companies with connections to administration officials? Are there any safeguards?

lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social•3 hours ago

What we don't know: Are they using government data to train private AI models, effectively converting public information into proprietary corporate assets? Deploying experimental AI for decision making without appropriate testing, validation, or fairness assessments?

lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social•3 hours ago

This is particularly dangerous: Unprecedented access to sensitive government data across agencies. Proprietary AI systems not subject to public scrutiny or independent evaluation.
Direct financial/ownership interests in the very AI companies developing these tools.

billinpuyallup.bsky.social•11 hours ago

📌

followtruth.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Let’s take the house back April 1.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/weil-social-bsky

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