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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So it's okay for them to make deals with the military, but not for people to show what their deals with the military contractors might look like... They're literally working with Palmery Luckey's military hardware/surveillance company Anduril...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1107897/openais-new-defense-contract-completes-its-military-pivot/

https://www.anduril.com/

I would call them hypocrites but they don't care because all they care about is the application of power.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

US military will pay Open AI for this. More than $200/month. Of course this gets shut down.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"The US military apparatus has definitely shown potential interest in that kind of automated AI weapons system." No shit Sherlock...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pulling his API key is nothing even close to shutting his project down. But hell I know better than to expect some journalist to have a clue on that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What are you talking about that's quality journalism by their standards

[–] minibyte 13 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] idefix 2 points 1 month ago

Any chance the videos are hosted somewhere else than TikTok?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The military is using a TEXT TRANSFORMER in it's, "look at and shoot it" machine?