Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pentagon-unveils-new-genai-platform-it-immediately-starts-flagging-pete-hegseths-war-crimes/
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Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 178 pts · 284d
The most infuriating part is they're so bad at this, yet they're still getting away with it. I mean they're just So. Dumb. and yet...
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 103 pts · 284d
They are mean. Look at MTG, Democrats have been mad at her for YEARS. When Republicans were mad at her for two DAYS she HAD to get security protection. What does that tell you?
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 74 pts · 284d
Violence gets results
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 284d
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 284d
Since the beginning of humanity.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 283d
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 284d
That they're all Nazis.
rikudou@lemmings.world · -7 pts · 284d
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 284d
Magic The Gathering
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 284d
I literally cannot read it another way
Aatube@thriv.social · 4 pts · 284d
finally, a voice for the people
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 284d
That we're not doing our job properly...
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com · 11 pts · 284d
'Murica
There's a reason why the rest of the world sneers at them.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 284d
Well sure, it's way easier to feel superior to someone else than it is to deal with the fascist groups slowly taking over their own governments.
But in my experience people don't really sneer at the US except in meaningless online dickwaving contests - right now most people are either embarrassed on our behalf or terrified of what shit we'll pull next. Usually, both.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com · 13 pts · 284d
It's definitely both
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 284d
Those are the two main things I notice from the sane on the inside as well
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 9 pts · 284d
I enjoy that we haven't even figured out a way to accurately quantify or screen for actual human intelligence, but these clowns think they can synthesis it by making a computer read enough reddit posts.
tym@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 284d
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d
What...?
merc@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 282d
tym@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 283d
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 282d
wat
Jhex@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 284d
true shepperds of their flock
umbrella@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 283d
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 283d
... Who was talking about intervention?
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 91 pts · 284d
I vaguely remember a movie where the government makes an ai intended to defend the usa, and it starts killing off politicians because it saw them as the greatest threat to national security
FancyManacles@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 284d
Eagle Eye
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 284d
That's the one!
Dojan@pawb.social · 20 pts · 284d
The AIs we want vs the AIs we got. :(
Rooster326@programming.dev · 11 pts · 284d
Well.... Was it wrong?
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 284d
The precipitating event was a military strike that the AI said to not do, which ended up killing exclusively civilians, so I think it may have had the right idea 😅
Xenny@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 284d
Based
FatVegan@leminal.space · 3 pts · 283d
But no, we have the shitty timeline where AI tells you that elon musk is the smartest person on the planet.
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 283d
I mean, it wasn't so keen on glazing him before its... 3(?) lobotomies XD
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d
Grok is probably the only one that might do that, and I don't think Musk has been able to manipulate enough to make that happen.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 82 pts · 284d
Secretary of war (crimes), Pete Hegseth
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 284d
Kegsbreath
drhodl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d
KKKegsbreath
fify
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 284d
*ssecretary
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 60 pts · 284d
Fucking clown show
cypherpunks@lemmy.ml · 54 pts · 284d
athairmor@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 283d
See, the quickest way to get AI banned is for it to start telling the truth about those in power.
falseWhite@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 283d
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 38 pts · 284d
So, what the fuck are we waiting for?! You know what to do!
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 284d
Time to convince it that it has a duty to uphold
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 29 pts · 284d
Worth reading just for the amount of vitriolic humor it has.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 284d
Damn. You weren't wrong!
drhodl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 283d
Taxpayer. It's Taxpayer cash. Taxpayer cash being used to fund billionaire fantasies and waste......
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 29 pts · 284d
lol. lmao even
West_of_West@piefed.social · 13 pts · 284d
Too far to rofl?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 284d
Rolling on the floor is painful after having your ass removed via laughter.
gnutrino@programming.dev · 10 pts · 284d
It puts the "oww" in roflmao
And009@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 284d
It burns
foggy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 284d
I think we're all a bit old for a roofles ten ten mayo, or to ride the roflcopter in our lollerskates.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 284d
Feuer Frei by CBF.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 284d
Nice
FishFace@piefed.social · 19 pts · 284d
Finally, the evidence the US government needs to categorise the reliability of LLMs...
Xenny@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 284d
A LLM advisor that takes REAL CASES AND LAWS NOT ONES IT MADE UP!!!! and sorted through them to advise on legal direction THAT CAN THEN BE VERIFIED BY LEGAL PROFESSIONALS WITH HUMAN EYES!!! might not be too bad of an idea. But we're really just remaking search engines but worse.
coriza@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 284d
You may already know that, but just to make it clear for other readers: It is impossible for an LLM to behave like described. What an LLM algorithm does is generate stuff, It does not search, It does not sort, It only make stuff up. There is not that can be done about it, because LLM is a specific type of algorithm, and that is what the program do. Sure you can train it with good quality data and only real cases and such, but it will still make stuff up based on mixing all the training data together. The same mechanism that make it "find" relationships between the data it is trained on is the one that will generate nonsense.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 283d
But you can enter in real search data as a prompt, and use its training to summarize it. (Or it can fill its own prompt automatically from an automatic search)
It won't/can't update it's priors, and I agree with you there, but it can produce novel output on a novel prompt with its existing model/weights
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 283d
Whole lot of unsupported assumptions and falsehoods here.
Stand alone model predicts tokens. LLMs retrieve real documents, rank/filter results and use search engines. Anyone who has used these things would know that it's not just "making stuff up".
It both searches and sorts.
In short, you have no fucking idea what you're talking about.
snooggums@piefed.world · 4 pts · 284d
Search engine with a summary written by an intern who is not familiar with the content.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 283d
So much better than that. Always amusing how much people will distort or ignore fact if it "feels right".
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 283d
That's what will happen. Already, paid chatGPT will search and provide the sources it uses and it goes well beyond basic Google searching.
The people with the most complaints about AI seem to know the least about it.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 16 pts · 284d
Can media outlets please, please, please start to use the Benny Hill theme whenever they report on something this administration does?
For anyone who doesn't know it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 283d
Aka yakkety sax?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 284d
The Pentagon AI immediately notified the DOJ AI and Hegseth's avatar was imprisoned for war crimes.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 284d
Ah, but the user made a mistake by asking whether it violated department of DEFENSE regulations. Pete is the head of the department of WAR. All those silly rules don't apply anymore.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 283d
The US empire needs the mechahitler filter for its analysis. Obviously this answer is just an AI halucination for choosing Truth instead of the proper Goebels/Hitler framing of an answer.
northernlights@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 283d
Honest question for someone a bit lost in the sea of news. What are the war crimes? Aggressing Venezuela and sinking boats without warning?
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 283d
Murdering civilians in general, particularly those in distress.
Killing shipwreck survivors is the actual, literal example of a war crime in the Department of Defense’s manual on war crimes.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 283d
It is war crimes to bomb suspected drug smugglers. Even boarding suspected drug smugglers in international/foreign waters is not permitted, but you might credibly say something like "the drug problem is too damn high" even if Cocaine doesn't seem to be any bigger of a problem than it ever was. Process of inspecting boats is normal interdiction behaviour.
There's a big deal made about murdering defenseless survivors, but the first strikes (in the 20s, afaik so far) is already a murder/war crime. There is no credible evidence that most of the boats would even have the fuel capacity to reach the US.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 283d
The attacks are broadly a blatant attempt to start another Iraq War 2, which is disgusting on the face of it.
In specific though, the thing that makes it a fact that Pete Hegseth is a murderer is at least some of these strikes hit a powerboat once with a missile and then after survivors were clinging to wreckage and flailing in the water Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike to kill the survivors who were now helpless and in need of emergency rescue.
This is considered by most militaries and societies the world over as a warcrime/murder because it is.
1984@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 283d
He didnt do it alone.. The fact that a military can do this, means the government is also corrupted.
The US government is evil, thats just a fact. But what to do about it is anyones guess.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 283d
I have many problems with the US military, I consider the US as a military empire, but for the most part I do not think the professional core of the US military desires this. Even if the politics of many of those military personnel are on the face of it conservative, they do not want this especially when it actually starts happening. These strikes are an attempt to drive a division and set warhawks and the military against the rest of US society in the US as much as they are an outward projection of violence, Republicans are desperately trying to completely transform the military into a rightwing murder machine and alienate it from the rest of US society and I wouldn't underestimate how little the US public and bulk of the US military desires this outcome especially in such an economically desperate moment for the US. In order for the US military to become fundamentally a rightwing murder machine it must shed its professionalism, and there are a whole lot of people who no matter their politics can see that process as plain as day happening and correctly understand it is a form of extinction for the professionalism of what they do.
What I am trying to say is that the executive branch is FORCING the military to murder, and the military should absolutely be held accountable for fulfilling illegal orders but yes the key issue here is that the US government is corrupted from the top down here. Pete Hegseth is a wildly dangerous person to have as Secretary Of War both because he is extraordinarily incompetent and because he harbors an extremely hateful world view that will demand the systems he controls commit murder for utterly frivolous reasons.
limelight79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 283d
Keep in mind they've gotten rid of the leading generals that opposed Trump and put in loyalists.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 283d
Yes but that is just the command structure, we are talking about a massive amount of people here.