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submitted 2 weeks ago by Mike3322@lemmy.ml to c/world@lemmy.world

The US Defense Department's first direct partnership with Open AI fuels concerns over militarized technology– especially as similar systems have already been used to facilitate Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

On Monday, June 16, the United States Department of Defense signed a $200 million contract with OpenAI to deploy generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for military use, despite the company’s previous commitments not to develop AI tools for warfare.

According to the Pentagon, OpenAI—the US-based creator of ChatGPT—will “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.”

Under this cooperation, OpenAI plans to demonstrate how advanced AI can enhance administrative functions, such as healthcare for military service members and cyber defense.

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[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago
[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's gonna nuke everyone just for the name Joshua.

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

I suppose the good news is that our nuclear weapons systems IRL run on giant floppy disks from 1982. Never did I think that would be a helpful thing

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I thought that was changing soon?

[-] thelittleerik@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Now you know that Suchir Balaji didn't kill himself.

[-] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji

I have never heard of someone committing suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head. That is suspicious as fuck.

https://suchir.net/fair_use.html

[-] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Still wondering what will be done with all your data?

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago

Now combine this with OpenAI's plan to make people wear 24/7 microphone bugs that transcribe all your conversations (See towards the end of the latest Ordinary Things video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuIMZBseAOM) and you get a wonderful dystopian surveillance machine that is a literal 1984 replica.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

Annnd "Open"AI goes full evil, to the surprise of absolutely no one.

And the military is going for this? Yikes.

"Ah, my mistake! I suppose that was a bunch of civilians with signs and not combatants with weapons after all. Let's try again. Anyway, is there anything I can help you with?"

[-] BubblyRomeo@kbin.earth 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

“Guys why do people hate LLMs??”

[-] brendansimms@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

They're literally building skynet: WTF MATE

[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

More reason to use others like deepseek and claude, etc.

[-] brendansimms@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Claude is run by Anthropic who, unfortunately, is also working with Palantir and the fascists. source: SOURCE

[-] brendansimms@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you can, self-host your LLM's in something like LM Studio (requires a pretty good GPU though)

[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

All of the white house advisors are already copy pasting from AI because they have no clue what they're doing, so I guess cut out the middleman?

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

FINALLY, we were able to create the Torment Nexus

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

You mean the torment nexus from the famous book, "DONT BUILD THE TORMENT NEXUS"?

[-] Trihilis@ani.social 0 points 2 weeks ago

So since I'm not really using any of these ai tools. Can someone explain to me if openai is "open source" as it suggests? If so can't you just see the source code in case they try to ruin it?

I guess an AI can never be truly open in a way? I know this is probably a red flag but I know that a lot of Linux distros which are completely open source are government funded too.

[-] darksiderbun@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

OpenAI is unfortunately named and not open source at all.

[-] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, it’s not misfortune it’s an intentional act of deception; kind of like naming yourself national socialists while being racist brownshirts… it’s an intentionally obtuse lie!

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