To be fair, a trained LLM was probably better at identifying DEI than whatever musky chump they had driving it.

The whole premise is evil, but this possibly was more efficient.

And 100% of the time it will agree with the user. So if they ever asked "Are you sure this isn't DEI?", it would agree with them.

"Good observation! The concept of breathing is associated with DEI by some circles of LGBTQ people. As they say — queer people need air 🌪"

or something like that idk i don't speak AI

100% not true if they were using a single session to check multiple grants.

Every prompt you send contains a hashed version of your entire conversation with the chatbot. When this exceeds the chat bots context window, it's answers become less and less relevant.

You'll notice this if you've ever had a chat or guide you through something for an hour or more. It eventually gets something wrong takes you down a rabbit hole, and goes in a big circle. At this point, it can be very difficult to get the chat bot to simply respond to your prompt, i.e. if you say "you know what let's talk about _______ instead." It will keep talking about whatever you were talking about staying in your dumb rabbit hole loop.

So if they did this with multiple grants eventually it would basically realize theyre looking for "yes that's dei" and just responding with different versions of that ad nauseam.

The didn’t ask Grok?

Yeah, but if the people who are hired to review grants are checking for DEI, are they smart enough to understand what they're reading?

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.

Jesus Christ these people are so fucking dumb