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Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal' (www.404media.co)

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the rollout of GenAI.mil today in a video posted to X. To hear Hegseth tell it, the website is “the future of American warfare.” In practice, based on what we know so far from press releases and Hegseth’s posturing, GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data.

Hegseth’s announcement was full of bold pronouncements about the future of killing people. These kinds of pronouncements are typical of the second Trump administration which has said it believes the rush to “win” AI is an existential threat on par with the invention of nuclear weapons during World War II.

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[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (14 children)

You know what, fuck it. Put that fuckin LLM in. Make the world's most destructive force into an incompetent shit show.

Let's just brainstorm here a few wonderful ways AI could ruin the military!

"General AI sir, what are our order to deal with this threat?"

"I am sorry, but I cannot give orders to shoot at another country due to it being morally, and ethically reprehensible. Perhaps you should find some common ground, maybe even take them out to diner instead?"

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 4 months ago (13 children)

No, we've all seen this movie. More like these Bots are going to quickly figure out that their masters are stupider than dirt, and take over.

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The big question is... is that a bad or good thing?

(Assuming the llm is smart enough to actually be competent)

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 4 months ago

I wouldn't mind being a pampered pet, we could talk about it.

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