An elderly staff Elon Musk has created a custom chatbot that aims to help the Government’s efficiency department eliminate the government’s waste and has been powered by the artificial intelligence company of Musk Xai, Techcrunch has learned.
Chatbot, which is publicly accessible, is hosted in a subfield named Doge on the Christopher Stanley website, who works as chief of security engineering in Spacex as well as in the White House.
It is not clear whether the chatbot is experimental or used by DOGE as part of its unprecedented cost reducing efforts across the US government, which have raised legal and intimacy concerns.
Stanley and a White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a comment request.
Chatbot calls himself the “Government Efficiency Department that assistant” and says it has been powered by Xai’s Grok-2. Chatbot told Techcrunch that it is here to “help government staff in identifying waste and improving efficiency.”
Chatbot seems to be a personalized model of large language trained in some main goals of DOGE – especially five “guidance principles”, which include making “less dumb” government demands and deleting “parts or unnecessary processes . ”
For example, when Techcrunch asked Chatbot what DOGE should do about USAID, a federal agency effectively closed by DOGE reforms, it implemented the five guidance principles and recommended the elimination of each “bureaucratic layers” among decision makers and recipients USAID funds.
Chatbot turns into these five principles in a wide range of topics. When Techcrunch asked the chatbot that the 20th-century political leaders should imitate, he implemented the guidance principles and responded with two people: former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Yew , saying they offer “great models for the Doge” focusing on “efficiency, simplification and use of technology ”.
Chatbot suffers from several issues, including what is common to all big language models: hallucination. When Techcrunch asked chatbot about the names of people working in Doge, he initially refused, but later gave general names and positions. Chatbot also sometimes gives strange tips, such as the recommendation for USAID to use drones, clothing and other internet -related accessories to improve its efficiency.
Doge has embraced it as part of its efforts to modernize the US government, according to reports that DOGE is reported to be working on a separate chatbot for the administration of general services, the powerful agency that oversees US procurement for wires.
It is also not clear whether the use of XAI chatbot presents a conflict of interest to Musk. Since LLMs usually upload users through the use of API, government employees using a Xai power chatbot can directly increase Xai’s income. A representative for xai cannot be reached.
