In recent months, Elon Musk’s DOGE has attempted to hollow out America’s federal bureaucracy. After firing droves of workers and attempting to downsize prominent agencies, the billionaire-backed effort is attempting to create a new governance model that prioritizes automation.

On Friday, Wired reported that, in a flailing attempt to modernize the agency, a new ChatGPT-style bot was integrated into agency staffers’ workflows.

The Agency Support Companion is supposed to “assist employees with everyday tasks and enhance productivity,” an internal email viewed by the magazine reads. However, the chatbot does not seem to work very well. “Honestly, no one has really been talking about it at all,” a source who works at the agency told Wired.

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    to assist employees with everyday tasks and enhance productivity,”

    My boss did the same to us. I’m a developer.

    That was also exactly his wording.

    Fuck?

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      They read the same business magazines and are probably quoting the same paid article promoting a “solution”. And there’s a high likeyhood they don’t know they’re quoting an ad.