Flutterby™! : LLMs used to fuck up lives 2026-03-12 16:16:28.90447+01

LLMs used to fuck up lives

2026-03-12 16:16:28.90447+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

the school bombing is so vividly colossally evil it's hard to even talk about, but i think when we look back on this period in history it'll be clear that the iconic use case for LLMs in policy was to enable fascists to cancel a random museum in North Carolina's $350k HVAC replacement grant on the basis that it was "DEI".

SnoopJ @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

@jplebreton I'm always drawn back to the 2021 story of a white supremacist "AI" company that fleeced Utah taxpayers with a technology that straight-up did not exist in any form.

Venture Beat from 2021: Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI

Predates the craze for LLMs by a bit, but I think about this pretty much every time I am reminded that Evolv and other such scams exist. Dime a dozen, I'm sure.

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