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ceo at my company is doing the same thing with various people.. its dumb and also funny, but also a huge waste of resources
welcome to capitalism
if I didn't think it was going to get us all killed this would be hysterical
"Dear AI Xi, creation built upon all western scholarly writing about you, why do you do what you do?"
BECAUSE-I-AM-EVIL-AUTHORITARIAN-DICTATOR-.-BECAUSE-I-AM-AN-UNTRUSTWORTHY-AND-CONNIVING-*EXPLETIVE*-AND-I-HATE-FREEDOMS-.
Amazing
These bots still 'hallucinate' data that is completely fabricated on a regular basis, reinforce the bias of whoever is using them, and are generally incapable of even the most monotonous of tasks without creating problems or making serious mistakes
Sounds like the perfect basis for this sort of project, no notes
spy-tastic
shut the fuck up
An emulated version of Baudrillard is spinning in the map's depiction of his grave 
when China drops a nuke on Washington after the U.S. declares holy war against it insead of doing nothing like the simulation
actually nuking stuff would be one things these AIs would likely be extremely horny for https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/
Consequences of training it on redditors who think fallout would be a fun vacation
The DoD, erm, DoW pays billions for Claude and Palantir and they were still caught blindsided by Iran closing Hormuz, something any kid who has played a tabletop war game would have predicted. 
I don't think it's even that, but more the fact that people making decisions don't even bother engaging with reality. You just have an echo chamber of people telling each other what they want to hear. If you don't do this then you get ejected from the group.
I doubt AI world leaders will stop this. They'll just change the parameters of their AI world leader chat bot until it fits what they want. Like when they lost that war game simulation.
Oh exactly, I was saying that even if these AI models predicted something sensible then it would be promptly ignored if it didn't fit with the prevailing dogma.
actions ranging from diplomatic protests and complete surrender to full strategic nuclear war.
I love and agree with placing "diplomatic protests" and "complete surrender" at the same end occupying the same space
The arrogance, it's disgusting and pathetic
How does this even work? Because Trump is the only world leader who's stupid enough to talk without consulting PR.
I bet CIA is like any large org, and someone wanted to justify playing with AI
I'm going to guess that a ceo-brained higher up got a bunch of agents in a room and told them to come up with uses for ai, and this was one of the better suggestions.
lmao what could go wrong?
These nerds will do anything to avoid having to develop real Humint
inb4 irl Nuclear Gandhi
these people should be mulched
Oh no, the make-work program for political dynasty failsons has fallen to AI!
маразм крепчал
BenAI Gesserit witchcraft
Our weeks are measured in decades
Archive link: https://archive.ph/gDajY
Full text (from January 21st, 2026):
Spy Family
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been stepping up its efforts in the world of AI — including an eyebrow-raising use of chatbot tech.
As the New York Times reports, the CIA has been quietly developing a platform that lets analysts "talk" to foreign leaders, in a bid to predict how they might react in certain situations. The human variety of this type of behavior-predicting analysis has been the bread and butter of the agency's behind-the-scenes grunts for a very long time. Instead of painstakingly compiling "profiles" on world leaders based on public information and gathered intelligence, however, those analysts will engage in faux conversation with large language models (LLMs) trained on similar intelligence and information that's presumably being fed into its training data.
The NYT didn't say how formally the chatbot has been deployed, or who helped develop it. However, an interview with the CIA's first chief technology officer, ex-Pentagon AI czar Nand Mulchandani, reveals that its opacity is very much by design. Mulchadani, a Silicon Valley veteran, has a chart in his offices showing all the layers of approval it takes to get any private sector collaboration approved within the secretive agency. From handing issues with contracts to taking care of any project roadblocks, each step requires an incredible amount of bureaucracy and clandestine discussion — hurdles that the CIA acknowledges are hindering its quest to keep up with innovation and China, America's main tech adversary.
Training Day
The agency's now-CTO was, as the NYT notes, hired to help spearhead a forward-thinking sea change within the CIA. In the two-and-a-half years since he was brought on, Mulchadani has apparently made it easier for private companies to start working with the intelligence agency — and reading between the lines, it seems he's held the hands of tech CEOs through the labyrinthine bureaucracy.
"The more we share about how we employ technology, how we procure technology, what we’re going to do with it, will make companies want to work with us and want to team with us more," explained Juliane Gallina, the deputy director of the CIA's digital innovation arm, in an interview with the NYT.
According to Gallina, the agency is looking to declassify and "expose a little bit" of its secret technological sauce to help procure private sector contracts.
There was no mention, however, of whether the public will be given a look behind the curtain of what their tax dollars are helping to fund.
More on spies: Hackers Apparently Stole the FBI's Call Logs With Confidential Informants
This totally won't backfire, and end in wrath and tears...
Cant believe yall at hexbear support emulation cmon, this has gotta make you realize its a silicon valley grift smh my head
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