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Tom
@photaculous.bsky.social

It's just looking at trade deficit figures. It doesn't consider why there is one. Also, they've effectively just introduced VAT in the US. That's one way it could be conveyed to the US public.

Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

The phrasing of the prompt used, from what i've seen, more or less forces it. It basically says "solve trade deficits with tariffs, setting a baseline at 10%" and so... given that instruction that's what it comes up with. For fun, I tried it on Deepseek with reasoning on and...

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Martin Pánek
@mmister.com

For sure, the question itself is dumb. But the answer makes no sense nonetheless. So, I would expect some variation in the models to deal with a nonsense prompt. Really bizarre to me that they end up answering the same thing.