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After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy.

You mean drones? You're talking about drones. What's wrong with drones?

We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.

They had a contract with the Pentagon. They literally deal with military operations on a regular basis.

Hell, most of the pivotal technology developed in the last thousand years started as a military invention before civilian use. Including this internet thing you're arguing on right now.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, so you're just a straight up "right-wing" warmonger yourself.

What's wrong with drones?

Jesus Christ.

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

They had a contract with the Pentagon. They literally deal with military operations on a regular basis.

Cool Trump apologia.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/what-countries-has-trump-attacked-since-returning-to-office

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, so you’re just a straight up “right-wing” warmonger yourself.

Far from it. You seem unnecessarily reactionary, ready to hard-accuse anybody that doesn't agree 100% with your ideals. Again, absolutism is a bad thing, and the world is far more nuanced than your beliefs give it credit for.

You do not know me. Do not pretend that you do.

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

I could just as easily produce civilian casualties from the Iraq War, the Vietnam war, WWII, whatever. Shit, the US can never repay the terrible terrible debt it caused against the citizens of Laos.

None of that damage was caused by drones. The weapons change, but the horrible military decisions, unfortunately, do not.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/28/what-countries-has-trump-attacked-since-returning-to-office

This has nothing to do with LLMs. These are human decisions, made by terrible human beings that deserve to get shoved into the frontlines like the draft dodgers they are.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Okay, right-wing reactionary. Thanks for expanding on the NRA slogan and expanding your warmonger rhetoric to defend Raytheon and Northrop Grumman. They're just making the guns!

(Edit: strange, suddenly you care about bad businesses.)

But even if I take your entire pro-military-industrial-complex rhetorical stance as granted, Warmonger Dario Amodei said he wants to develop fully autonomous weapons, which is a step even beyond your bloodthirst. I hope. So you don't need to keep defending him... Right?