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

  today at 6:45 PM

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

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

  today at 7:22 PM

  Is this a real quote?

  • techblueberry

    today at 7:23 PM

    Half way down or so.

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

Interesting they found ChatGPT more useful than Grok.

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

  today at 7:39 PM

  > 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.

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

Related:

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

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

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