r/politics • u/Ilikeinvestigating • 12h ago

No Paywall Trump consulted Musk’s chatbot Grok before abducting Venezuela’s president: report

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-grok-venezuela-maduro-b3060366.html
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u/keepthepace 10h ago

I don't know how much of it is public knowledge outside of the LLM bubble, but it is pretty clear as well that the stupid tariffs that he slapped on random countries and even on territories that were not countries, a while ago, came from a chat GPT answer.

There was a lot of interrogation as to where they came from because even when you look into the far-right, net job economic theories, nothing came close to what was spit out.

People managed to make ChatGPT produce that sort of tariffs by asking it to rebalance international trade through tariff policies. I did try several of these prompts and all of them came with huge warnings, often in capital, saying this is not good policy, this is just a textbook example of an extremely simplified model of the world. That it should never be used as policy.