Mastodawn

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/116192434654015384

I have been watching this story simmer for several days. I've been wary of it. It fits too neatly into the criticisms and warnings many of us have been raising. But it's starting to look like, yes, they are using an LLM to make critical decisions.

At the same time I have heard parts of speeches from the US Secretary of War.* I have been dismayed by his shallow thinking. It doesn't help that his speeches also sound like they are also composed by an LLM.

*formerly Defense

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Not a Spring Onion

@futurebird

As The Washington Post reports, the US military is extensively using Palantir’s Maven Smart System in the conflict, which has had Anthropic’s Claude chatbot integrated since 2024.

(https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ban-anthropic-military-pentagon-relying-iran)

Okay. Military has been using data mining for a long time. And adding a chatbot to such a system "makes sense" if you think like the product manager of Murder Software Deluxe.

[Taking a very deep breath, imagine 15+ expletives about the general state of the world here.]

I automatically assumed that when "AI" is mentioned in posts and articles, that they just use the wrong word for data mining.

Why the [expletives] would you use a fancy text generator to select targets for airstrikes? That's even... I literally don't have words for this.

Except for words one isn't supposed to use in polite society.

After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War

The US military is extensively using Palantir's Maven Smart System in its attacks on Iran, which uses Anthropic's Claude, despite the ban.

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Cedar Fen Farm Cedar Fen Farm Mar 8

@wakame @futurebird

It occures to me that I have repeatedly seen the questionable assumption that whatever enemy is hiding behind hospitals, schools, women, sheep herds, etc by us, isreali, turkish, and other warmonger analysts since I started following the ME mess. If that 'strategy' appeared to have statistically relevant presence in the data scrapes done to educate a new military AI, no doubt its being used constantly if they're letting one of their AI retards run things. There is no wisdom, chaos reigns.