Lawsuit Alleges DOGE Cancelled $349,000 HVAC Grant to Museum after ChatGPT Flagged It As DEI

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/chatgpt-dei-high-point-museum-hvac-grant-lawsuit-doge-1234777297/

24 Comments

  1. Every day I am amazed at how we blindly throw AI at everything without seeing what’s actually going to happen when it is used.

  2. The grant proposal was for ‘improved climate-control’ and also mentioned that it would encourage ‘more diverse audiences’.

  3. ParsonsProject93 on

    I had a friend of a friend tell me that they had a grant denied because they proposed building a women’s bathroom. Apparently having the word women was too woke.

  4. No time for human review when racist and sexist trash feel the desire to ruin the lives of other people for being born in a configuration that Republicans don’t personally approve of. Conservatism is a coward’s word for evil.

  5. Great move gestapo, any place where people express unique thoughts and learn must be DEI…

  6. no_one_likes_u on

    If you ever feel like you’re not smart, or you’re not doing good at your job, please watch the deposition videos of these doge asshole “geniuses”.

    All they did was plug the grant text into ChatGPT and ask it if it was DEI and if ChatGPT said yes they canceled the grants.

    These guys all got high paying gov jobs and many have now used their gov connections to fund what will undoubtedly be equally corrupt and incompetent companies that I’m sure will be very successful at winning gov contracts and siphoning off more of our tax dollars.

  7. Was it a black history museum, a women’s history museum, or god forbid, a black women’s history museum???? /s

  8. All of DOGE’s prompts should be public. You can coerce an LLM into anything. I’d like to see the prompts they used.

  9. Incompetent/stupid/lazy people are always looking for a way to fake competence or intelligence.

    LLMs are like catnip to these people. They see something that let’s them appear smarter and cant tell how obvious it is to the rest of us and hoe often it messes up.

  10. Relevant-Doctor187 on

    If it doesn’t just keep the white man cool it’s DEI.

    I’m sure Temu Jared said that in the deposition.

  11. I know a water district that had a half million dollar grant for a sanitation system upgrade revoked because their application included the word “underserved”.

  12. OdonataDarner on

    Neither Chatgpt, grok, Gemini, nor claude can count to 200: 

     https://youtube.com/shorts/7jnbOcLWqPk?si=3xzx9IKgVPIxV4Ac

  13. using ChatGPT to decide which government grants to cancel is genuinely insane. thats like asking siri whether to do heart surgery

  14. It was probably something like a quote somewhere in the proposal that said:

    “This museum houses important and well known artwork from men and women all over the world, and needs proper climate control in order to keep the artwork in good condition.”

    And they said “did it mention artwork from *women?????* That’s *woke* shut it down!!!”

  15. they fed museum grant applications into ChatGPT to decide what counts as DEI. a $349K HVAC grant. for a museum. we’ve reached the point where AI is making budget decisions it has zero context for and nobody sees a problem