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Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal' (www.404media.co)

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the rollout of GenAI.mil today in a video posted to X. To hear Hegseth tell it, the website is “the future of American warfare.” In practice, based on what we know so far from press releases and Hegseth’s posturing, GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data.

Hegseth’s announcement was full of bold pronouncements about the future of killing people. These kinds of pronouncements are typical of the second Trump administration which has said it believes the rush to “win” AI is an existential threat on par with the invention of nuclear weapons during World War II.

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[+] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, I’ll rephrase. I really hope someone doesn’t shoot this guy! That would be really horrible, and I’d be very upset if that happened. In no way would I suggest that that would improve the world in massive ways.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Give him time, he will only harm himself. This guy will get drunk and try to be all "super he-man" impressing someone and set of some artillery, or some crap and blow himself up. He is a danger to everyone, including himself. He's also so dumb he'd probably get shit faced and fall off a curb and hit his head.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

Hey man, I like getting shit faced. I’m not going to let this guy ruin that for me. I’m far more angry about the literal war crimes.