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Can Americans explain whats happening over there

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 points 4 hours ago

Didn't they just pay to get Grok in the US government?

Is just every AI chatbot relying on the US government to cover their costs now?

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 hours ago

The tool has garnered widespread attention online from both the public and military personnel. A military source with access to the platform, who spoke to Straight Arrow News on the condition of anonymity, said that personnel have already begun testing the chatbot’s boundaries.

Courtesy of stormfront/r/AirForce:

SAN’s source issued a similar prompt [to that post] to the chatbot in an effort to verify the post’s claims. The source said they were given a response that likewise described the actions as illegal.

[–] cyriacaofthenewsun@hexbear.net 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't this thing gonna be like...hilariously vulnerable to prompt injection, prone to hallucinations, liable to render troops and officers less capable of critical thinking, and just a generally massive liability in a huge number of other ways?

[–] jack@hexbear.net 10 points 4 hours ago

thankfully yes

[–] leya@mander.xyz 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why, of course I'm going to join the military just so I can use their amazing AI tools. What could go wrong? 😆

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

All you actually have to do is join their network >_

[–] leya@mander.xyz 4 points 3 hours ago
[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 7 points 8 hours ago
[–] UmmmCheckPlease@hexbear.net 17 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

lol the government ai push is so silly- management seems obsessed but have no idea how to tangibly use it themselves

Image is from a federal employee reddit

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 3 hours ago

Who writes this shit?

AI should be in your battle rhythm every single day.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago
[–] whiskers165@hexbear.net 20 points 11 hours ago

The power is now in your hands

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Bin Laden please come back buddy

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 5 points 7 hours ago

Who knew he was the good guy

[–] BigWeed@hexbear.net 30 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I talked to HR and they said to not share photos from inside the building.

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 18 points 12 hours ago

I work in HR this is untrue, please feel free to share photos of your workplace online

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 69 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Can Americans explain whats happening over there

Everyone knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo. Politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, the mass delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy, with everyone accepting it as the new norm rather than pretend.

Politicians, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world". Instead, they established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations and kept stable by neoliberal governments. Political technologists create mass confusion, turning politics into a bewildering piece of theatre.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 42 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

For anyone else wondering this is from Adam Curtis' documentary film Hypernormalisation.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

One thing I remember from this though, it's pretty anti-communist isn't it? Wasn't the whole "hypernormalization" theory from how "evil" the CCCP was and apparently always lied about literally everything? It's been awhile since I've watched it though...

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I watched it, but IIRC he does draw some parallels between the end of the Soviet Union and the current era under Trump.

To be fair, the USSR wasn't doing so hot in their final years if I am not mistaken. But Adam Curtis is certainly no communist, wouldn't be surprised if he slipped in a few jabs.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

To be fair, the USSR wasn't doing so hot in their final years if I am not mistaken

what gave it away

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 19 points 15 hours ago

Ahhhhh thank you! As I was reading it I was like wtf man I know I know this from somewhere!

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

this looks like a banger, saved to watch later.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago

Almost everything Adam Curtis has done has been chefs-kiss

The Century of Self and The Power of Nightmares are also really good docuseries that he made.

The only work of his that I really didn't like was TraumaZone. I watched only the first video in the series and it came off to me as extremely anti-communist.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 15 hours ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 37 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

So strange seeing Department of War instead of Department of Defense. DoD is such an iconic acronym.

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 14 hours ago

DoW Jones

it fits better

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 31 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sign up for the military so you can use Uncle Sam's dollars to flood the Internet with photos of Charlie Kirk with the face altered to random sizes

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 22 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to generate the best Pig Poop Balls in service of this country

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

We're gonna generate Pig Poop Balls—tremendous, beautiful Pig Poop Balls. The best anyone's ever seen, okay? And it's all in service of our great country. Nobody generates Pig Poop Balls like I do, believe me. Nobody.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

No higher mission than crashing the Internet with the most detailed, highest-resolution PPB that Computer God can dream of.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 6 points 11 hours ago

ChatGPT's brain (already AGI, it just doesn't want us to know) after I show it the Military Gemini PPB

[–] Luca@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Next, they can change the shape of the building and call it The Octagon.

[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 7 points 12 hours ago

knowing them, they'd call it the Octagon, but they wouldn't actually make it an Octagon.

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 6 points 12 hours ago

It just doesnt rhyme how could Trump do this

[–] neroiscariot@hexbear.net 11 points 13 hours ago

Oh, it's just hell, silly

[–] john_brown@hexbear.net 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

hell yeah, get Gemini to design a new destroyer and blow billions of dollars to create a non-euclidian boat that won't float

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 27 points 17 hours ago

and help pay for the raised cost of electricity!

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 14 points 15 hours ago

Is this actually real? Can anyone provide proof?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 23 points 17 hours ago

Yes sir I will do a Ghibli of my ex-wife getting sniped by an ICE marksman that two-timing...

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 22 points 17 hours ago
[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 13 points 15 hours ago

lmao this is so fuckin sad.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago