Grok goes full nazi and Pentagon thinks “ooh we should hire it!”
Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
Submitted 19 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grok-elon-musk-xai-pentagon-contract/
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LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Certainly wouldn’t be the first time.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 hours 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 2 hours 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.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 hours 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.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Sure. Why not put mechahitler in charge? May as fucking well.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
He got back $200M of his $288M election donation.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
See?! I knew Elon and his main minion Trump were playfighting.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
And all the pentagons info is compromised…
Cheems@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
To be fair it probably has been for a while
Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
Just copy paste it in
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
No, Elon specifically said to cut and paste.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
that would be hilarious
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Not really, too many lives at stake.
Etterra@discuss.online 11 hours 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 hours ago
We don’t use O rings because there’s no ‘O’ in “Hitler”
Cuboos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
I understood that reference.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
And here I thought Trump and musk were no longer buddies.
rozodru@lemmy.world 4 hours 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 3 hours 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 4 hours ago
Trump is a toddler.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
This is probably Trump trying to get Musk to shut up about Epstein.
simplejack@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
“Bro, let’s pretend like you hate me so people buy my cars again”
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 17 hours 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 16 hours ago
That’s why the news that Grok is racist is true. The US government will be even more systematically racist now.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 15 hours 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 11 hours ago
They want to use mecha hitler without having to build mecha hitler
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
A pity. I wanted to watch Blazkowicz blow up Hitler in 4k HD.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
They went and built the torment nexus…
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 hours ago
Where are you going to deploy it? On your laptop?
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 hours 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 3 hours ago
Why would the Pentagon deploy it on a laptop?
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Dept of Grift Engineering
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 16 hours 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 15 hours ago
You should be more terrified. And also more glad
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They want both of these things.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 hours ago
What incompetence? It’s just the usual corruption. It’s 90% of what Pentagon does.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
This is corruption, but there’s nothing usual about it.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Were it 90% of what Pentagon did, the rest of the world bar China and India would be US territories.
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Why would you be glad?
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 9 hours 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.
danc4498@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Ok, Elon will lay off the Epstein jokes for a little while.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 hours ago
People will no longer laugh at the term “military intelligence” for the obvious irony. Now, they’ll say “remember when the military tried to use artificial intelligence? ha ha what a disaster”
lerba@sopuli.xyz 2 hours ago
Well that’s fucking fantastic
nthavoc@lemmy.today 12 hours 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.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours 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
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 18 hours ago
The UN should consider nuking this… this … whatever it is that is left of the USA to Kingdom Come.
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 17 hours 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 10 hours ago
Yes, I know. Unfortunately, rest of the world is not doing that much better.
etherphon@piefed.world 15 hours ago
Why even work anymore? To pay taxes for this shit?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Food and shelter mostly
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Since this came right after a post from !theonion@sh.itjust.works on my feed i honestly thought it was the onion.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
On the plus side, the first thing it’s gonna do is nuke Israel
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
why would nuking another country be a good thing?
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
What could possibly go wrong?
vala@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I thought they broke up
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
THEY WERE ON A BREAK
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 16 hours ago
There’s the grift.
trailee@sh.itjust.works 18 hours 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?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Great, never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake
Kurious84@eviltoast.org 15 hours ago
Wow. End of line man.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Game over man, game over!
anachrohack@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
[deleted]ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 7 hours 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.
lack@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
What the fuck guys, who wished for ‘real life tony stark, lol’ on the cursed monkey paw!?!? GUYS?!?!
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
They’re going to get someone killed
ftbd@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Isn’t that their business anyway?
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
If you vote and pay taxes, it’s your business too.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 12 hours 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.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
MechaHitler will be right at home