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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    It’s an interesting point, if we get all the 65+ to work till they drop they won’t be around much longer as they will drop like flies freeing up all the housing, pensions etc. Just think, we all would have that in our future and how motivating it would be.

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      Yup. Finally a house for a fair price.

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        Yup. Finally a house for a fair price. Blackrock owns the house your family wanted to pass down but couldnt pay off before dying.

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          Gotta kill black rock I guess.

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        Because private equity would never use the opportunity to buy up all the extra units, further controlling the market, and ensuring their existing inventory doesn’t suddenly tank in value. /s

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          True. Just gotta burn them down I guess