c/politics · by stumu415@lemmy.zip · 15d

Pentagon Photo Shows AI Agent Being Asked to Help ‘Create a War’

https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-photo-shows-ai-agent-being-asked-to-help-create-a-war-12258627

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Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 15d (3 replies)

A Department of Defense official told Newsweek that the prompt referred to a "Weekly Action Report" (WAR), a standard document used throughout the department to summarize weekly accomplishments. The official said the image showed a warfighter using GenAI.mil to create an agent for generating the report.

Funny to imagine, but has a reasonable explanation.

astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 15d (1 reply)

Yeah, Newsweek is annoying with their clickbait headlines. This seems like such a nothing story. In fact, this is probably one of the few things in the military LLMs are good for.

raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 15d

It's the only thing I've ever used an llm for haha

raspberry_confetti@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 15d

Yeah, my first thought was this is for a war report.

TiredDinoByte@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 15d

Chefs kiss that he is typing in all caps.

thecam@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15d

Surprised the guys not prompting "We made a boo boo, how do we get out of a war with Iran"