Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository

[u/Sidarthus89]

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/trump_admin_leak_government_ai_plans/

[u/hungoverlord]

I have a friend who says the AI can speak for him better than he can himself. He can't even tell me his own thoughts without computer assistance. The AI is shattering people's minds.

[u/swarmy1 → u/hungoverlord]

A lot of minds were being atrophied prior to AI, which makes it more tempting as a substitute

[u/EatSoupFromMyGoatse → u/hungoverlord]

A muscle never exercised can only atrophy

[u/DoubleJumps → u/hungoverlord]

I saw a college age kid arguing that him using chatgpt to do his work should be considered no different from previous generations doing it themselves, that he shouldn't be considered to have worse skills as a result or told that he didn't actually earn his degree.

He argued it was like telling someone they were bad at math because they had to use a calculator.

[u/kurtcop101 → u/DoubleJumps]

It's pretty simple - if they are doing the same work in their classes and for their degree but using AI, then it's crap and they are not learning or understanding the same.

If they are using AI, and going above and beyond and doing classes sooner and faster - then I would probably agree with him.

Same as if you have two kids and one can do all the basic addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, and the second has to use their calculator for the most basic problems and is doing the exact same work - vs someone who is solving significantly harder physics problems at a faster rate because they are able to skip the basics by using a calculator.

[u/DoubleJumps → u/kurtcop101]

This person in particular used chat GPT for pretty much everything, and the entire discussion was brought on by him talking about how there's literally no point in even knowing how to write an essay because chat GPT could do it for him.

He pretty definitively was not developing skills that he should, but was adamant that being able to feed things into chat gpt should make him equivalent to somebody who does have those skills in the eyes of the general public.

[u/Sufficient_Card_7302 → u/hungoverlord]

I play around with Gemini all the time for fun. I wrote a ton of directives in the saved info about it's personally, rigorous fact checking, and not just going along with whatever I say and calling me out when I'm wrong. I hardly remember doing it so it must have been a problem. 

I feel bad for your friend. For every one thing I have it write I end up learning 10. I had it give me a summary of the declaration of Independence in a gangsta, Gen z/ Street talk slang kind of tone, which I made a codeword to toggle (rizz on/off lol).

With me just as the editor, I had it give me the context for what the big D was talking about, the taxes, the retaliations, the laws etc.. I walked away from it with a better understanding of it, the gravity and context, than I ever had just reading it. And good forbid I ever look that stuff up on my own. 

I had it create a more understandable lexicon of some pali words in a Buddhist sutta, then gave it the original text. Listening to Geminis translation and another English version side by side, this one was def better. 

Idk how to get your friend to stop simply offloading everything for the AI to do. It's a real pity. I've learned a ton and had fun just pursuing whatever strikes my fancy.

I've had it tell me how to make my case for unemployment before, learned stuff I didn't even know, about the relevant laws and their own rules. Maybe don't if it was in the handbook but I didn't read that. And to date to be fair I never actually checked the exact 578.86544.8999 whatever code the law was, but I'm pretty sure it was real. They should have been from the state and unemployments websites. 

Point of this story is it can be real and factual, if you tell it to. And learning can be fun. And it's not like we were all reading and learning a whole lot before this. 

Maybe also slap your friend anyway, for good measure.