🤖 Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT’s /// The Verge

Gemini, the most strident of them, will give you a page full of explanations as to why this oversimplified approach could backfire — “while this calculation offers a seemingly straightforward way to target bilateral trade deficits, the real-world economic implications are far more complex and could lead to substantial negative consequences,” it warns, adding that “many economists argue that tariffs are not an effective tool for balancing trade deficits.”

That explains it, this whole government is being run by a hallucinating AI. Cool.