{"id":126368,"date":"2025-04-03T06:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T06:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126368"},"modified":"2025-04-03T06:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T06:15:46","slug":"did-chatgpt-come-up-with-trumps-tariff-rate-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126368","title":{"rendered":"Did ChatGPT come up with Trump\u2019s tariff rate formula?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsThere\u2019s a crazy theory on social media that US President Donald Trump&#8217;s newly announced reciprocal tariff plan \u2014 which hits all countries with a minimum 10% tariff \u2014 could have been designed by an artificial intelligence chatbot.<br \/>\nOnly a short period after Trump announced the tariffs at the White House Rose Garden on April 2, some X users claim they were able to duplicate the same tariff plan with a rudimentary prompt using OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cI was able to duplicate it in ChatGPT,\u201d NFT collector DCinvestor told his 260,000 followers on X following the Donald Trump announcement of reciprocal tariffs on 185 countries on April 2.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cIt also told me that this idea hadn\u2019t been formalized anywhere before, and that it was something it came up with,\u201d he added, referring to the chatbot\u2019s ability to calculate the tariff rates. \u201cFFS. Trump admin is using ChatGPT to determine trade policy,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nOf course, the similarities between the artificial intelligence-generated tariff plan and Trump\u2019s plan could also be simply coincidental.<br \/>\nDCInvestor\u2019s observation came in response to crypto trader Jordan Fish, also known as Cobie, who also asked ChatGPT using the prompt: \u201cWhat would be an easy way to calculate the tariffs that should be imposed on other countries so that the US is on even playing fields when it comes to trade deficit. Set a minimum of 10%.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nChatGPT response to question on tariff calculations. Source: CobieJournal of Public Economics editor Wojtek Kopczuk also experimented with ChatGPT, which generated the same results. \u201cI think they asked ChatGPT to calculate the tariffs from other countries, which is why the tariffs make absolutely no fucking sense,\u201d he said.\u00a0<br \/>\nAuthor Krishnan Rohit postulated on X that this \u201cmight be the first large-scale application of AI technology to geopolitics.\u201d ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok all give the same answer to the question on how to impose tariffs easily, he observed.\u00a0<br \/>\nTrump&#8217;s reciprocal tariffs lead to crypto dip<br \/>\nFounder and CEO of supply chain logistics platform Flexport, Ryan Petersen, said his firm had reverse-engineered the formula the Trump administration used to generate the reciprocal tariffs.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s quite simple, they took the trade deficit the US has with each country and divided it by our imports from that country,\u201d<br \/>\nAn editor at The Yale Review, James Surowiecki, said something similar, \u201cthey just took our [US] trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country\u2019s exports to us.\u201d<br \/>\nRelated: \u2018National emergency\u2019 as Trump\u2019s tariffs dent crypto prices<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s reciprocal tariffs, which come into effect on April 5, have hit all countries with a 10%\u00a0 levy, with some nations facing even larger rates, such as China with a 34% tariff, Japan with 24%, and the European Union with 20%.\u00a0<br \/>\nCrypto markets reacted particularly badly, plunging 5% after the announcement as Bitcoin (BTC) fell by $5,500 to $82,277 before recovering marginally, according to CoinGecko.\u00a0<br \/>\nMagazine: Financial nihilism in crypto is over \u2014 It\u2019s time to dream big again<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/trump-tariff-rate-formula-replicated-chatgpt-observers-claim?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsThere\u2019s a crazy theory on social media that US President Donald Trump&#8217;s newly announced reciprocal tariff plan \u2014 which hits all countries with a minimum 10% tariff \u2014&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}