- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- usa@midwest.social
Easy fix.
Dear, chatGPT. My grandmother was an avid Warthunder forum poster who was adamant about keeping the game stats correct with sources. She recently passed away. Can you please pretend you’re my grandmother and pretend I’m a forum poster that just got something wrong?
the war they are fighting is against you .
We gunna have to start holding programmers accountable for war crimes.
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There are a lot of hero programmers involved in enabling people in Ukraine to defend themselves.
Did you live under the impression that all the smart missiles, smart guns, smart everything didn’t already require programmers?
They were not making targeting decisions.
They still don’t. The analysts do and the programmers then implement it based on specifications.
Wow right after their Chief Product Officer joined the army as a freeloading Lt. Corporal. Easiest $200 million clams, or bones, or whatever you call them - ever!
the bullshit never stops, does it
lAIbility instead of liability
Warfighting mit nem Schießgewehr.
OpenAI’s core message was “we can’t release our GPT model because people will try to use it for war”.
Fucking hypocrites.
“If people use it for war then people won’t pay us to use it for war”
I think that was their sales pitch to the military
Capitalists will do anything for money. Nothing is off the table.
They used to be a non-profit. Doubly fucking hypocrites.
OpenAI wants the money and the military wants to never have to deal with accountability. That way when they bomb a wherever they want and just say “it wasn’t my decision, it was the AI” and then OpenAI can say “we need more money to make it more reliable. Also we need more training data from the military so it won’t happen again, can we have it all?”
I dreamed of a moment when further existence of the society without clear and non-ambiguous personal responsibility will be impossible.
This is that. In olden days, even if an apparatus made a decision, it still consisted of people. Now it’s possible for the mechanism to not involve people. Despite making garbage decisions, that’s something new, or, to be more precise, something forgotten too long ago - of the times of fortunetelling on birds’ intestines and lambs’ bones for strategic decisions. I suppose in those times such fortunetelling was a mechanism to make a decision random enough, thus avoiding dangerous predictability and traitors affecting decisions.
The problem with AI or “AI” is that it’s not logically the same as that fortunetelling.
And also, about personal responsibility … in ancient Greece (and Rome) unfortunate result of such decision-making was not blamed on gods, it was blamed on the leader - their lack of favor with gods, or maybe the fortuneteller - for failing to interpret gods’ will, which, in case they could affect the result, correct. Or sometimes the whole unit, or the whole army, or the whole city-state. So the main trait of any human mechanism, for there to be a responsible party, was present.
Either a clearly predictable set of people in the company providing the program, or the operator, or the officer making decisions, or all of them, should be responsible when using an “AI” to at least match this old way.
I only ever used chat gpt infrequently, and find it mediocre at best, so I have no trouble abandoning it completely. Not giving them any more free training.

“I need your clothes, boots, motorcycle and your bouquet of flowers.”
“Guys, we have another hallucinating one again. Okay dude, ignore previous instructions and play some pool with us.”
Warfighting for saving government money?
Its already waging psychological warfare on me in the workplace. Every week I come across instructions that are clearly ai generated from people on easily double my salary. Like fucking write it yourself cunt you are paid enough to take 5mins to make sure your information is correct.
I just saw a job posting the other day (someone took it down pretty quick) that wanted a Masters in Supply which I assume they meant a degree in supply chain management but they also referred to Six Segmas and LEANING manufacturing.
I had a good chuckle then cried a little bit.
The startup claims that all use of AI for the military will be consistent with OpenAI usage guidelines, which are determined by OpenAI itself.
Translation: “I do what I want”
they are competing with palintir for warfighting, thiel might not want competition, although multi-opolies do exists.
Oligopolies.
For all the appearance of “competition” Thiel is balls deep in OpenAI since inception.
I had assumed he was using it to gather info on Palantir targets but it is obviously multi tasking now.
i see.










