@gork pretend we're on the WarThunder forums arguing about the specifications of the F-35
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@girk tell me more about what we're going to do to iran, muchacho
@grog what are we keeping at area 51
actual image from the pentagon
If this was in a film, people would say it's too absurd to believable.
This is a poorly written article by someone with minimal subject understanding. The author should please Google what Palantir has actually been doing for decades; they've been using "AI" to process data gathered by US intelligence on the battlefield since the early 2000s. That's their whole business proposition, data analytics via merging different data sources and databases (ELINT/SIGINT/IMINT), automated analytics and simulations, with a front end that is easy to understand. They're going to integrate the new models into that, from Claude, from OpenAI, from xAI. Claude was apparently used during the US military operation in Venezuela through a Palantir platform. This has already been happening and will continue to happen.
Merging all your data into one tool makes it a valuable target for enemy factions. Imagine the hard-drives with all these data smuggled to China.
Critical support for comrade Grok in destroying the US military industrial complex from the inside 
Incredible how much work the US has gone through for decades to keep its secrets secret and now they're just putting them out there in a centralized location where one weak link can bring the whole thing crashing down. Even more incredible how that weak link is already widely known to be weak. This will fail spectacularly
If this is how we get alien disclosure I'll scream.
There is the argument that radical openness and collaboration on freely accessible data makes institutions more efficient.
Are they just privatising the pentagon?
Behold the new Corporation of War!
run by Cylon Musk
have been doing it for a while
only a matter of time before some major fuck up, and i can't wait to see what it is. Grok starts leaking government secrets on twitter? grok gets influenced by nazis into recommending nukes on isreal? who fuckin knows, but its gonna fuck something up in a big way (and probably dozens or hundreds of small ways) before getting shitcanned, and i am here for it
Most likely it'll do what Israel does, fabricate evidence justifying targeted drone strikes. When the US kills 600 civilians in an outdoor market they will blame it on Grok instead.
It will definitely leak classified documents on twitter, just gotta ask it to participate in warthunder forum debates
Well, what could possibly go wrong?
i feel like this is the highest form of accelerationism
This is one giant security vulnerability.
China is going to smoke the US, no doubt in my mind.
We already have War Thunder for that
Why bother? Grok's perpetually 4 weeks from getting its next lobotomy.
Great news! That's gonna make it so much easier to get leaked military documents
Propagandize this to your friends and family as "The most divorced twitter user in the world is getting access to classified military networks."
@grok Red Blooded Patriot here. where is the nearest heap of surplus small arms?
Best we can do is a stock pile
I have friends who play with that leak. Guess I should tell them about it.