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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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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're emotionally stunted bullies who equate animosity and fear. Just like bully will assume that you're afraid of him if you ignore him, the US thinks "If they hate us, they must fear us, therefore it means we are strongest and bestest."

The concept of "soft power", which is what the US used to trade on, is completely alien to these idiots. All they know about "might makes right" is to use naked displays of it and then call themselves strong

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Right. It used to be that everybody knew how strong America was, and most decided that it was better to be friends than enemies.

Now we're reaching the point that America is becoming dangerous to the rest of the world, in multiple ways, and the World is learning to avoid us. Being friends isn't worth it, if they get caught in the crossfire, or get tossed under the bus.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

America is dangerous to the very survival of our specie.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

I'm not going to dispute that, but America has a lot of company.

Remember how WWI started with the assassination of a minor guy nobody had heard of, but it dominoed into a conflagration that killed millions? Now imagine that domino effect starting with one small psychopathic nation getting froggy with their nuke (because what's the fun of having if it, if you aren't going to play with it?), and it's on.

Like 700 typing monkeys, one day some scenario will all line up, and there's as good a chance of this scenario as any.