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McGlockenshireyesterday at 6:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

"Simple, cheap, fast," and somewhere between inaccurate and wrong. From the article:

> To flag grants for their DEI involvement, Fox entered the following command into ChatGPT: “Does the following relate at all to DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters. Begin with ‘Yes.’ or ‘No.’ followed by a brief explanation. Do not use ‘this initiative’ or ‘this description’ in your response.” He then inserted short descriptions of each grant. Fox did nothing to understand ChatGPT’s interpretation of “DEI” as used in the command or to ensure that ChatGPT’s interpretation of “DEI” matched his own.

The culture warrior understanding of the term "DEI" does not reflect reality. The prompt is trash. Garbage in, garbage out.

This is somehow even stupider than similar reports of grants being canceled simply for containing specific keywords commonly used in scientific research but also on the culture warrior no-no list.


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watwutyesterday at 7:45 PM

Women or minorities being there or being cared about is DEI.

Only men naturally matter. White men I mean. Only right wing white men, actually, bonus point if they are aggressive assholes. That makes them proper masculine.

tt24yesterday at 6:53 PM

In what way does ChatGPT’s understanding of the term DEI not reflect reality?

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