UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDid ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim.cointelegraph.comexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1636arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1614arrow-down1external-linkDid ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim.cointelegraph.comUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square61fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 day agoThat bothers me too. Get an actual expert source to verify before you publish shit from randos on Twitter and Reddit.
minus-squaredrislands@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·24 hours ago“several X users claim”, they say for sources. Christ Almighty.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoIn this case, it’s as simple as “type it into ChatGPT, like the Reddit users did” :/
minus-squareMyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 day ago“these lazy fucks in the government are using ai to come up with policy” Also news outlet “I am too lazy to do the laziest thing I’m angry about, even though it’s my literal job”
minus-squareYoga@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·23 hours ago“News outlet” is a huge stretch. It’s a crypto currency blog pretending to be news.
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoBut that doesn’t confirm or deny that Trumps formula came from ChatGPT, they could both be drawing from some other source.
minus-squarebrucethemoose@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 day agoYou can generally toggle LLM “grounding” features, aka inserting web searches into their context. Modern LLMs have a information “cutoff” of a few months ago, at the latest, so the base models will have zero awareness of this formula.
minus-squarelightnsfw@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 hours agoUnless the formula came from something that already existed that both Trumps people and these models are referencing to come up with the same number.
That bothers me too. Get an actual expert source to verify before you publish shit from randos on Twitter and Reddit.
“several X users claim”, they say for sources. Christ Almighty.
In this case, it’s as simple as “type it into ChatGPT, like the Reddit users did” :/
“these lazy fucks in the government are using ai to come up with policy”
Also news outlet
“I am too lazy to do the laziest thing I’m angry about, even though it’s my literal job”
“News outlet” is a huge stretch. It’s a crypto currency blog pretending to be news.
But that doesn’t confirm or deny that Trumps formula came from ChatGPT, they could both be drawing from some other source.
You can generally toggle LLM “grounding” features, aka inserting web searches into their context.
Modern LLMs have a information “cutoff” of a few months ago, at the latest, so the base models will have zero awareness of this formula.
Unless the formula came from something that already existed that both Trumps people and these models are referencing to come up with the same number.