Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce • Hacker News Board

akprasad wrote: post #9

namuol wrote: post #6

A Trojan horse if I’ve ever seen one.

What is the strategy, in your view? Maybe something like this? -- 1. All government employees get access to ChatGPT 2. ChatGPT increasingly becomes a part of people's daily workflows and cognitive toolkit. 3. As the price increases, ChatGPT will be too embedded to roll back. 4. Over time, OpenAI becomes tightly integrated with government work and "too big to fail": since the government relies on OpenAI, OpenAI must s…

Do you view Microsoft as too big to fail because of the federal governments use of Office?

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by brettermeier » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 3:35 PM UTC

eigilsagafos wrote: post #14

Kind of funny that the government needs AI to navigate all the red tape and paperwork it has created

It doesn't need it but it's helpful. Same as documentation from developers...

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by Isamu » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 3:36 PM UTC

Don’t they mean to say “replacing the entire U.S. federal workforce with ChatGPT”? Surely that is the future everyone is looking to.

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by hnthrow90348765 » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 3:36 PM UTC

akprasad wrote: post #9

namuol wrote: post #6

A Trojan horse if I’ve ever seen one.

What is the strategy, in your view? Maybe something like this? -- 1. All government employees get access to ChatGPT 2. ChatGPT increasingly becomes a part of people's daily workflows and cognitive toolkit. 3. As the price increases, ChatGPT will be too embedded to roll back. 4. Over time, OpenAI becomes tightly integrated with government work and "too big to fail": since the government relies on OpenAI, OpenAI must s…

Also getting access to a huge amount of valuable information, or a nice margin for setting up anything sufficiently private

Re: Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce

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Post by passive » Wed, Aug 06, 2025, 3:36 PM UTC

akprasad wrote: post #9

namuol wrote: post #6

A Trojan horse if I’ve ever seen one.

What is the strategy, in your view? Maybe something like this? -- 1. All government employees get access to ChatGPT 2. ChatGPT increasingly becomes a part of people's daily workflows and cognitive toolkit. 3. As the price increases, ChatGPT will be too embedded to roll back. 4. Over time, OpenAI becomes tightly integrated with government work and "too big to fail": since the government relies on OpenAI, OpenAI must s…

Yes, but there was also a step 0 where DOGE intentionally sabotaged existing federal employee workflows, which makes step 2 far more likely to actually happen.