The Pentagon’s about to start using xAI’s Grok — and other federal agencies could be next

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10 Comments

  1. TheCthonicSystem on

    Ah yes, the Chat Bot that got routinely edited until it was a Nazi. What a great thing to adopt!

  2. PancettaPower on

    Am I against LLMs being integrated into massive databases? Not entirely.
    Self proclaimed Mecha-Hitler? Concerning.

  3. KomradeCumojedica on

    equipping Pentagon with any of the current gen AIs in place of a more advanced and practical AI (that wouldn’t go deranged from a few stray prompts) seems equivalent to equipping NASA with astrology books in place of proper astronomic research papers in terms of practicality

  4. neolthrowaway on

    Only Musk could have turned me from a tech optimist to a tech doomer.

    Over the last few days xAI has announced:

    – MechaHitler
    – presumably SOTA LLM
    – 3D animated anime girl ‘companion’ avatars to goon with
    – DOD and other government contracts

    They keep pressing the dystopia button. Bruh, I feel for deepmind and Anthropic.

  5. If Mecha Hitler is as bad of a military thinker as Hitler Hitler then we’re in real trouble!

  6. Why does the department that just had a fuck ton of money approved for it *again* need to use a third-rate AI?

  7. This thing is going to be so useless

    Btw does that mean Musk is out of the doghouse?

  8. Inamanlyfashion on

    I’d like to see the contract

    I have a sneaking suspicion Musk got a lot of terms the government usually doesn’t allow vendors to have

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