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jannyfer04/03/20254 repliesview on HN

I just asked ChatGPT with a lazy prompt: "Come up with a formula to impose reciprocal tariffs that will reduce America's trade deficit to zero" and it came up with basically the same formula.

Oh man if people in the White House are just using ChatGPT...

https://chatgpt.com/share/67ee890e-b400-800b-ac83-90a6147d32...

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ignoramous04/03/2025

> chatgpt.com/share/67ee890e-b400-800b-ac83-90a61463212

404.

> White House are just using ChatGPT

Likely, Grok? https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg%3D%3D_e8b4c405-3bb8-4f01-9...

api04/03/2025

The Terminator franchise had it that the AI has to nuke humanity and fight a giant war including time travel to take over.

Nah, all it has to do is offer to be "helpful" and do stuff for us and we'd be like "sure, go ahead, take over, here let me cut and paste your advice right into a policy document."

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rtkwe04/03/2025

I never know for sure if that's the source or if the bots are just reading the same "Tariffs for Dummies" source the administration is working from.

alfiedotwtf04/03/2025

I can't believe that could be real at all, but then remembered we're still on the "Biff has the Grey Sports Almanac 1985" timeline