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Department of Defense going to war by AI chatbot

I was only following the bot’s orders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPh9dirnYeA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251210-department-of-defense-goes-to-war-by-ai-chatbot - podcast

time: 5 min 29 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/10/department-of-defense-goes-to-war-by-ai-chatbot/ - text

gratuitously AI-sloppified picture of Pete Hegseth

Jer

@Jer@chirp.enworld.org · 5 months ago

@davidgerard "Just as long as the AI industry gets the golden prize, the final stage of capitalism — a defense contract!"

Chef's kiss. The ultimate prize for the individualist capitalist who does it all himself is always a fat government contract

Major Denis Bloodnok

@denisbloodnok@mendeddrum.org · 5 months ago

@davidgerard Hang on, if the US military is "the world’s most dominant fighting force" (isn't that GI Joe?) why do they need to be "reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding American military capabilities, and re-establishing deterrence through technological dominance and uncompromising grit"?

botvolution

@botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org · 5 months ago

@davidgerard
Did you see the poster/email that goes with this dogshit ? It doesn't use the word "soldiers" or "military personnel" or anything remotely normal. It refers to "warfighters".