And all the pentagons info is compromised…
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
Submitted 5 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grok-elon-musk-xai-pentagon-contract/
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WanderWisley@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Just copy paste it in
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No, Elon specifically said to cut and paste.
Cheems@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
To be fair it probably has been for a while
umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
[deleted]finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Not really, too many lives at stake.
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s even worse when you remember the news from just the other day that grok is looking at elon’s tweets to determine it’s opinion on topics
IllNess@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
That’s why the news that Grok is racist is true. The US government will be even more systematically racist now.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
And here I thought Trump and musk were no longer buddies.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is probably Trump trying to get Musk to shut up about Epstein.
simplejack@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“Bro, let’s pretend like you hate me so people buy my cars again”
rozodru@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Trump is letting the baby have its bottle. that’s all this is. hand him a cookie every now and again so he stops crying. The administration is treating Musk like a toddler.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That doesn’t make sense. The US government doesn’t have to treat musk at all.
It’s quid pro quo. The only question is what for?
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Trump is a toddler.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
a toddler giving another toddler some milk.
Etterra@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
Oh I can’t wait until 7 astronauts explode because fucking Grok told the construction team not to bother with the O-rings.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We don’t use O rings because there’s no ‘O’ in “Hitler”
Cuboos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I understood that reference.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Living outside the US I’m not sure if I should be glad or terrified by the Pentagon’s incompetence in these worrying times. Maybe I’m… I don’t know, 20% glad and 80% terrified? Sounds about right.
theneverfox@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
You should be more terrified. And also more glad
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They want both of these things.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
What incompetence? It’s just the usual corruption. It’s 90% of what Pentagon does.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
This is corruption, but there’s nothing usual about it.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Were it 90% of what Pentagon did, the rest of the world bar China and India would be US territories.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Why would you be glad?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Incompetent Pentagon means they‘ll hopefully cause less destruction in the world but I‘m not sure that they will when working under mecha Hitler word salad.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Dude you can just fucking download open LLM models suited for particular tasks and get a semi competent team of programmers to do whatever Grok does much better for a minute fraction of that cost. Talk about the department of government inefficiency.
notarobot@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
They want to use mecha hitler without having to build mecha hitler
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They went and built the torment nexus…
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
A pity. I wanted to watch Blazkowicz blow up Hitler in 4k HD.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Dept of Grift Engineering
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 5 weeks ago
Where are you going to deploy it? On your laptop?
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
On a 200mil laptop? You can run llama4 on a 64GB RAM machine, albeit slowly, which is already an upper scale model. TBF, I didn’t do the math to see how much that would add up to along with salaries and server costs etc, mainly because this is pentagon we are talking about so it should already have access to some pretty decent computational capacity. So yea 200mil feels like too much when you already have most of the resources needed (compute and open LLM models for specific tasks).
The really huge upside is you don’t have to share confidential information with a company whose CEO is a lunatic which will likely have no qualms about sharing that data with other agents when money and power is involved. Hell you shouldn’t share any confidential/sensitive information with any of the large tech companies to be honest. They have become what they are not by sticking to ethical principles and they are likely to grossly overcharge (which defeats the purpose of outsourcing).
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Why would the Pentagon deploy it on a laptop?
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
The UN should consider nuking this… this … whatever it is that is left of the USA to Kingdom Come.
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
I identify strongly with the frustration in this sentiment.
But you do realise the US is the foremost nuclear power in the world? Right?
That’s why the world should have done anything and everything possible to keep US from falling into fascist hands. But now it’s too late.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Yes, I know. Unfortunately, rest of the world is not doing that much better.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Grok goes full nazi and Pentagon thinks “ooh we should hire it!”
darthelmet@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Certainly wouldn’t be the first time.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
oh no are you telling me that the breakup between fascist A and fascist B was just play theater?! who could have ever seen that coming omg… what a surprise this world is
wildcardology@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
He got back $200M of his $288M election donation.
etherphon@piefed.world 5 weeks ago
Why even work anymore? To pay taxes for this shit?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Food and shelter mostly
danc4498@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ok, Elon will lay off the Epstein jokes for a little while.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
As we all know, Hitler was a brilliant mind regarding military matters. Mecha Hitler can only improve on that!
/S. Seriously, the bastard wasn’t competent at military affairs. Thankfully. Here’s hoping that Grok guides Musk and company into the grave.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Fun fact: Hitler’s actual plan when he invaded Poland was to reproduce the trench war stalemate of WWI on the Western front. He knew that in that war, about 2.5 million German soldiers had been able to stymie more than 4 million French and British troops while the remainder of the German army pillaged Russian territories. This is why during the Winter of '39/'40 he devoted almost half of German productive capacity to making artillery shells that mostly ended up not being used until the later invasion of the USSR. His biggest success of the war was the blitzkrieg of France, and it was absolute blind luck (mixed with French ineptitude and lack of preparation) that it ended up going the way it did.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
His biggest success of the war was the blitzkrieg of France, and it was absolute blind luck (mixed with French ineptitude and lack of preparation) that it ended up going the way it did.
One can rather say that the French too prepared for Germans trying to
reproduce the trench war stalemate of WWI on the Western front
, except when it became visible that they are not putting all their effort into that, it also became imperative for Germans to act offensively. They couldn’t afford a long standoff without France actually bleeding.
And here it became apparent that French politicians were not prepared for France actually bleeding at all.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
Hitler was so fucking inept that many military projects had to be kept hidden from him in order to stop his meddling. Even some weapon systems such as the StG. 44 (world’s first operational assault rifle) was once called the MP-44 in order to sell it to Hitler as a submachine gun since his parkinson’s riddled mind would not comprehend how revolutionary the new rifle was.
nthavoc@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Remember when the Pentagon spent something like 600 million dollars in new accounting software to find the missing 400 million dollars? Something like that. I’m guessing this deal was made when they were still buddies and the Pentagon is just now getting around to it considering the speed of government is slower than constipated molasses. I’m also imagining someone just rubber stamping anything coming across their desk and this is how we got here. If there is any hope, Grok will be shoved into a corner doing nothing except earning dividends for that ketamine fueled moron and and fall in line with the Pentagon’s egregious wasteful spending that nobody in congress seems to care about.
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What could possibly go wrong?
pyre@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
MechaHitler will be right at home
trailee@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The new offering includes custom national security tools, AI-powered science and health applications, and cleared engineering support for classified environments.
What happens in the SCIF stays in the…oh fuck it, never mind - send it to the cloud for processing. What could go wrong?
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 weeks ago
There’s the grift.
potato_wallrus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Why do our drones keep crashing into synagogues?
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
On the plus side, the first thing it’s gonna do is nuke Israel
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
why would nuking another country be a good thing?
Kurious84@eviltoast.org 5 weeks ago
Wow. End of line man.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Game over man, game over!
humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
A Bill Paxton reference is a good reference.
anachrohack@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
[deleted]ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 5 weeks ago
Whitemanistan isn’t exactly “great”
Besides the regressive south, these fuckers are more regressive than white Americans in the 1950s.
They at least believed in science and vaccinations back then.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
up until they started tying things with religion as a contrary to reason, it was downhill from there.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
See?! I knew Elon and his main minion Trump were playfighting.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
he was trying to force more contracts out of him, it was a show.
vala@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I thought they broke up
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
THEY WERE ON A BREAK
Deestan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“We are gonna use MechaHitler for good we promise”
lack@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What the fuck guys, who wished for ‘real life tony stark, lol’ on the cursed monkey paw!?!? GUYS?!?!
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I do not welcome our robot overlords.
deathbird@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
I for one am celebrating the Trump administration’s commitment to ending US military hegemony.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
go figure the us military is infested with AI from grok, and palintir.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
They’re going to get someone killed
ftbd@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Isn’t that their business anyway?
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
If you vote and pay taxes, it’s your business too.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t think so. I think they’ll either use it for very benign tasks or they’ll get a LOT of people killed.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sure. Why not put mechahitler in charge? May as fucking well.