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New federal employees must now write essays praising Trump's policies
(www.newsweek.com)
This has to be illegal.
Probably, but we're way past the point of the Trump regime ignoring all laws that disagree with it..
I'm still waiting for all the promises that USanians kept saying over the years that guns would save them all...
The courts have been telling him no for the most part. They just take awhile because they actually follow the law.
Is Trump actually following what the courts say though?
if its coming from putin he will. otherwise he ignores it.
When the BBB passes it will be illegal for courts to enforce the law
No but see if i keep the right details about the room in my minds eye, and point my magic hammer at my enemy, and chant the laws just right, they have to do it. Or you shoot a fireball.
Thats why you keep your focus the fringe on the flag; that keeps you firmly in earth magic; if you get distracted and think about the benches while chanting the law youre gonna do either fire or wood magic, and you do not want to accidentally summon a tree in a court room. Especially not if youre citing a powerful law when you do.
If I had a dollar for each time I've had an excellent ratio decidendi argument ruined by the sudden appearance of a fucking weeping willow, I'd have enough for a Costco hot dog!
(The second time, I managed to work it into my closing statement with some difficulty)
And you lived!?
Apparently 🤷
Oh shit, i guess they'll stop then.
Phew, we almost had a disaster!
Not a lawyer but I actually don’t think so.
I assume all government figures never thought this kind of act could ever happen here so they had no reason to make a law about it or one that covers it.
P.S. Even if it is, who is going to stop them. They haven’t followed any law they don’t want to unless forced by the courts and even then they still do it.
I'd expect there's applicable laws concerning discrimination in hiring practices. It's probably not a legal stretch to argue that mandating idealogical support for one party's policies will run afoul of political discrimination laws. In fact, this might generate a bunch of lawsuits from people who get turned down for jobs.
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I don't think so
Dumb? Yes but not illegal
You know you're a pathetic weakling when you have to force people to say nice things about you.
I know right? Trick them, or just revel in the hate like a functional adult.
Finally a usecase for ChatCPT
And no doubt, when trump dies (hopefully fucking soon), every will be required to be visibly sad and crying. Sound like anyone you know?
We all know dear leader, he dwells within our hearts. Or else.
Does Trump even know what his policies are?
I'm not sure he even knows what his pants are at this point..
Onboard the train to dystopia.
I keep assuming these articles are The Onion.... But it's not the onion. It's real.
I hope that some agency in the US will start organizing educational visits to North Korea, where this tradition of writing essays about the supreme leader has been practiced for decades and the people there have a vast amount of experience that they would selflessly pass on to the citizens of the former Land of the Free.
Can I use ChatGPT?
This is like the only ethical use of it can think of: generating acceptable propaganda so you can get the job and do actual work instead
Cover letters seem to be the perfect application for LLMs. I ain't writing an essay on why I want to work here.
which your resume already covers. cover letters is just stroking egos anyways.
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Probably better to use Grok, because that's what's going to read these things.
Can Grok tell if Grok generated the essay?
I don't know if it will care to be honest
I feel like the biggest pedant here, but it won't care because it's an LLM. Worth reiterating that they're just word processing programs, not some thinking AI.
Trump is completely pathetic
The people who actually review the job applications and decide who gets hired probably won't even read these.
its because they use software/ai to screen it out anyways at least for private corporations they do that.
Should end up with a lot of unqualified sycophantic drones running the government. If sense ever returns to the US, it will take years to fix.
*decades or centuries
The Trump Administration's entire modus operandi appears to be "Ferret out transgressive deep state leftists by assigning the bureaucracy tasks an LLM can easily accomplish."
Are back handed compliments acceptable as praise? What about sarcasm?
Such efficiency. All these man hours spent reading shitty essays that don't accomplish anything except titillating Trump's ego.
Hmm, let's see... I like Trump cause he totally doesn't smell like shit like people say. He's also the smartest man in America and not incredibly stupid like his college professors wrote. He's also as ethical as an oil corporation. His spray tan is a lovely orange and does not make him look cheap, fat and trashy.
Especially not trashy. Trash is not his middle name, despite what the majority of people think.
Finally, a use case for AI slop I can get behind.
I would AI the shit outta that everytime.
Feral government... Freudian slip?
On the plus side, this will really make people think about what they’re getting into, and clarify exactly what type of machine they’re willingly becoming a cog in.
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