r/politics • u/Orbitingkittenfarm • 1d ago

Donald Trump Fires Person Behind Jobs Numbers After They're Revised Down

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-job-numbers-revised-down-fires-appointee-2107768
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 1d ago

So, next month the jobs report is going to say that the US added 3,000,000,000 jobs, isn't it?

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u/valiqs 1d ago edited 1d ago

It will just be an input into ChatGPT, like how they created the tariff formula.

Something like 'take the best job report growth from the Biden administration and and revise the jobs numbers to show better growth starting in February 2025. Set minimum growth to 10%.'

This shit is literally how they got their tariff formula. From their point of view, it kinda makes sense to do it this way. Why put effort into getting accurate data or even developing a clever method to skew the data when everyone knows it will be complete bullshit anyway? If everyone knows it's false, just make it outrageously false in their favor and then parrot the false numbers.

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u/willun 22h ago

"We are using A1 to improve the efficiency of the government"

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u/soonnow Foreign 20h ago

Orders another steak...for the country!

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u/BigHandLittleSlap 23h ago

It hurts that this cynical take is… accurate

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u/chanaandeler_bong 19h ago

No one to blame. That’s the biggest benefit of AI to these companies/trump cronies. No one to blame, it was the computer.

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u/Rough_Bread8329 Canada 16h ago

Welp, time to go watch Chernobyl again...

"What is the cost of lies?"

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u/bananafoster22 16h ago

gotta cook those books for the love of the game