your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨: OpenAI and defense contracting. Is there any recent or current info? I found the stuff from Jan that they were opening to it and a few claims they had a deal on. Ex-NSA general on the board in June.

OpenAI and defense contracting. Is there any recent or current info? I found the stuff from Jan that they were opening to it and a few claims they had a deal on. Ex-NSA general on the board in June.

defensescoop.com/2024/05/07/g...

Microsoft deploys GPT-4 large language model for Pentagon use in top secret clouddefensescoop.com Microsoft has deployed the GPT-4 large language model in an isolated, air-gapped Azure Government Top Secret cloud environment for use by the Department of Defense, the company announced.

and apropos www.ft.com/content/2bee...

OpenAI expands lobbying team to influence regulationwww.ft.com ChatGPT maker beefs up global affairs unit as politicians push for new laws that could constrain powerful AI models

ty I saw the first one, but Azure deploys a lot of dumb shit otoh i found one where a CIA guy told how they were using an LLM as a search engine and went "yep this won't go wrong nope"

I dont like anything about how they've handled this from what I've managed to find

this was the CIA one the story is so heavy on the untechnical hype that my eyes are bleeding, i'm gonna need to close-read it to work out what they might actually be doing and large chunks are almost certainly just false www.defenseone.com/technology/2...

The US intelligence community is embracing generative AIwww.defenseone.com Intelligence agencies are using generative AI for a variety of purposes, including content triage and assisting analysts.

something something At long last, we have adopted the Make Your Decisions Much Fucking Stupider machine from the classic sci-fi novel

the liability evasion machine "what warcrimes, the machine decided to wipe out that family on its own"

No direct knowledge, but I've worked with an org that usese it for on-the-fly first-pass translation of auto-transcribed voice communications. Could imagine the NSA being interested in something like that.

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