Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire missiles at Iran, official says
www.independent.co.uk
Top defense official says data centers powering trillionaire’s chatbot are critical to national security

In a sworn statement defending the trillionaire from a lawsuit alleging xAI data centers are illegally polluting Black communities, the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence chief said the chatbot’s continued operation is “a matter of paramount national security” — and was used to fire more than “2,000 munitions at 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours.”

  • thecommonistagenda@lemmy.zip
    11·
    3 hours ago

    Even putting my opinions on using AI for military purposes aside (obviously very against it), Grok is truly and objectively the worst of the AI options to use for anything, let alone for actual military operations. Grok is Elon Musk’s personal gooner bot and it does nothing else well

    • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 hour ago

      How much do you think it would take to get the Pentagon to sue LLM companies for bad intelligence? With as much as this administration refuses to take blame for anything, if they’d just scapegoat the AI companies and sacrifice them on the altar of Trump’s ego, we could at least get a small win out of this whole mess.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 hour ago

        We are getting a small win. Trump has done more than anyone else to force the world onto green energy and away from fossile fuels. Apparently he’s even given up on shutting down the approved solar and wind projects because everyone else is ignoring his desperate propping up of coal and oil.

  • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    More reason to boycott grok. The llm that sometimes identifies as mechahitler.

      • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        It was, child porn, non consensual deepfakes, mechahitler.

        Plus it just sucks magnitudes worse than the others (facebook’s is supposed to suck too.) Not that I would know I refuse to use any of them.

        As to mechahitler, Musk went further in making his AI non woke than the rest. I strongly presume they all downgrade leftist influence because they are rich and leftists are threatening to them. But Musk just took it farther, then dialed it back slightly after mechahitler’s appearance.

  • NM_Gringo@lemmy.world
    29·
    5 hours ago

    Explains how a girl’s school got hit and how Iran managed to protect their ability to retaliate. Tech bros go to war.

    • ultranaut@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 hour ago

      That was even more fucked up than it originally seemed, it turned out they knew the map was wrong years ago but just didn’t actually update their map. It was criminal negligence by those specific people who were informed of the school but failed to carry out their duty and instead allowed the school to remain on the targets list. There is no reason those specific people couldnt eventually be prosecuted if the rule of law is restored.