ChatGPT · Sam Altman · Cursor · Tesla · The Verge
DOGE tapped ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rules
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The ruling restores federal grants that were shut down for ‘DEI’ prejudice.
Key facts
- The Department of Government Efficiency’s cancellation of over $100 million in grants was unconstitutional, according to a ruling on Thursday
- The filing mentions testimony from Justin Fox, a DOGE staffer who worked with his colleague Nate Cavanaugh to eliminate 97 percent of grants under the NEH, in part by relying on ChatGPT’s
- In her decision, Judge McMahon ultimately found that DOGE’s elimination of over 1,400 NEH grants was unlawful and unconstitutional, citing violations of the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment’s
- The ruling, which stems from a 2025 lawsuit filed by humanities groups, says “it could not be more obvious that DOGE used the mere presence of particular, protected characteristics to disqualify
Summary
The Department of Government Efficiency’s cancellation of over $100 million in grants was unconstitutional, according to a ruling on Thursday. The ruling, which stems from a 2025 lawsuit filed by humanities groups, says “it could not be more obvious that DOGE used the mere presence of particular, protected characteristics to disqualify grants from continued funding” from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The filing mentions testimony from Justin Fox, a DOGE staffer who worked with his colleague Nate Cavanaugh to eliminate 97 percent of grants under the NEH, in part by relying on ChatGPT’s understanding of DEI:. Fox testified that he used ChatGPT “o highlight why grant may relate to DEI” and “to pull out anything related to DEI.” To do so, he submitted each cursory grant description from the NEH spreadsheet to ChatGPT using a standardized prompt: “Does the following relate at all to DEI?