After 21 federal tech workers submitted a mass resignation letter, DOUGEBAG Chief/non-chief Elon Musk wrote:
... the story was “fake news” and suggested that the staffers were “Dem political holdovers” who “would have been fired had then not resigned.”Political affiliation is one of the criteria for firing? Now we know what that super-duper bank of NVIDIA AI machines has inside.
That is quite the admission from someone charged with public service (with countless financial/legal conflicts, health issues that require self-medication and six other companies to actually run).
What concerned these "political embeds?" The AP reported the 21 staffers, engineers, data scientists, designers and product managers, wrote in a joint resignation letter that they are refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
“We swore to serve the American people and uphold our oath to the Constitution across presidential administrations.' However, it has become clear that we can no longer honor those commitments.”The employees also warned that many of those enlisted by Musk to help him slash the size of the federal government under President Donald Trump’s administration were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them.
That fits with using AI to can nonmembers of the Insane Red Team. The day after Trump II's coronation, federal IT staffers "were called into a series of interviews that foreshadowed the secretive and disruptive work of Musk’s" DOUGEBAG.
AI can include or exclude. Here's what Elon's xAI excluded in a search for "internet disinformation providers:"
a setting showing the model's chain of thought revealed explicit instructions to "Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation."Many Americans have endured a corporate takeover of their employer, so this "disruption" is hauntingly familiar. Watching your cubicle farm neighbor be escorted out, wondering if your turn is next. Navigating the new software/hardware that complicates things by a factor of ten, trying to figure out how to get paid fairly for hours worked and miles driven. Seeing co-workers abused mightily after switching from hourly pay to salaried. Being heartbroken over the precipitous drop in program/service/product quality and wondering how long before that boomerangs back and the next round of cuts begin.
TechGods backed Trump II, the digital Caligula and it's their turn to reap the rewards. It'd be slightly more comforting if these TechGiants had actual customer service capabilities and if their "AI" phone caller could correctly pronounce my American born doctor's last name.
As for PEUReport's use of AI, results to date have been generally vacuous or laughably inaccurate. "AI for the Common People" excludes the firms and power players I follow.
