In Reply to: Trump mancrush to cost Americans 100s of millions posted by Dr.J on July 30, 2025 at 15:54:29
Turns out one of the DOGE morons developed an AI tool to crunch the numbers and instead, it "hallucinated" them. It listed multiple contracts as being worth 34 million dollars, none of them were actually that big, one of them was only 35K.
The code, using outdated and inexpensive AI models, produced results with glaring mistakes. For instance, it hallucinated the size of contracts, frequently misreading them and inflating their value. It concluded more than a thousand were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.
The DOGE AI tool flagged more than 2,000 contracts for “munching.” It’s unclear how many have been or are on track to be canceled — the Trump administration’s decisions on VA contracts have largely been a black box. The VA uses contractors for many reasons, including to support hospitals, research and other services aimed at caring for ailing veterans.