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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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[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I mean in a way it's true. Just not clear lethal for whom.

[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 1 points 2 days ago

I mean - given it has already hallucinated wrong health and safety information, plus has merrily led several people to self-terminate in their paranoia, I'd say that AI is already making America more lethal - towards itself!

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Does he have no teeth?

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

He’s just come from servicing Bubba’s service member in the Situation Room, no time to reload.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Well, he's not wrong. XD

[–] badmancrooks@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Dope, where and when do I surrender myself to SkyNet?

[–] adp1314@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

I don't know about more lethal, but an LLM could probably help out with administrative work and logistics. There's a lot of paperwork

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