DOGE canceled NC Museum grant for HVAC systems after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI(myfox8.com)
52 pointsby cldwalker2 hours ago9 comments
  • mellosouls2 hours ago
    Somebody tweeted the other day they'd had their 600k grant cancelled because of the word "polarization".

    It was a physics grant for research related to light polarization.

    • cap11235an hour ago
      I remember seeing a similar one for a math grant. Cohomology is pretty gay, though.
  • techblueberryan hour ago
    ChatGPT determined that this was related to DEI, responding, “Yes. Improving HVAC systems enhances preservation conditions for collections, aligning with the goal of providing greater access to diverse audiences. #DEI.”

    Well, case closed.

  • cldwalker2 hours ago
    The original article title is "DOGE canceled High Point Museum grant for HVAC systems after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI, lawsuit alleges" but I modified it so it could fit the character limit
  • JumpCrisscrossan hour ago
    Interesting they found ChatGPT more useful than Grok.
  • goatloveran hour ago
    If the goal of DOGE was really to reduce "waste, fraud and abuse", wouldn't a human be checking for false positives? If anything, mistakenly cancelling a grant sounds like waste or abuse.
    • mindcrime34 minutes ago
      > If the goal of DOGE was really to reduce "waste, fraud and abuse"

      It wasn't. DOGE was never anything but another grift designed to benefit administration insiders, with maybe - at best - a thin veneer of "reducing waste" to satiate the appetite of the gullible people backing all of this in the first place.

  • josefritzisherean hour ago
    AI is so stupid it enables third parties to be stupider. It's a new type of cognitive deficit.
  • ChrisArchitect43 minutes ago
    Related:

    Another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI"

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47352819

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