DOGE canceled NC Museum grant for HVAC systems after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI

https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/high-point/doge-canceled-high-point-museum-grant-for-hvac-systems-after-chatgpt-flagged-it-as-dei-lawsuit-alleges/

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cldwalker•1h 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

mellosouls•1h 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.

cap11235•1h ago

I remember seeing a similar one for a math grant. Cohomology is pretty gay, though.

techblueberry•1h 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.

JumpCrisscross•45m ago

Is this a real quote?

techblueberry•44m ago

Half way down or so.

josefritzishere•58m ago

AI is so stupid it enables third parties to be stupider. It's a new type of cognitive deficit.

goatlover•52m 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.

mindcrime•27m 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.

JumpCrisscross•43m ago

Interesting they found ChatGPT more useful than Grok.

ChrisArchitect•36m ago

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

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