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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by faxmeyourcode on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:59PM (#49759426)
This is how AI is going to kill us all. It's not going to become superintelligent and harvest our biomass for energy - we're just going to assume it's moderately intelligent and those assumptions will lead to badly informed decisions and by the time we realize we are acting on bad information it will be far too late for anyone to do anything about it.
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by verzali on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:22PM (#49759747)
Wasn't AI responsible for the US bombing a girl's school? That incident and who or what were responsible is not discussed enough.
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by Cthulhu_ on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:42PM (#49761240)
Responsible, no (as someone else pointed out). I don't know anything else.

AI technology was used to target Palestinian / Hamas targets (and often their families), ultimately there was a human behind the wheels that would do a thumbsup or down. They spent less than two seconds on many targets. Make of that what you will. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the_G...

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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by ikrenji on Friday September 18, 2026 @07:06PM (#49761456)
--dangerously-skip-permissions ~ no one has time to review all this targeting bs
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by chrisjj on Friday September 18, 2026 @05:15PM (#49760359)
> Wasn't AI responsible for the US bombing a girl's school?

No. The morons who relied on it were responsible.

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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by amelius on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:15PM (#49760973)
No. The morons who hired those morons were responsible.
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by notthemessiah on Saturday September 19, 2026 @08:17AM (#49765937)
It was of course Palantir's Project Maven which lead us to drop a $2.5M missile on over 120 schoolchildren:

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/

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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by hdgvhicv on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:56AM (#49763746)
That’s not how we get to the bottom of plane crashes. Why were the procedures to prevent this not followed or not in place.
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by chrisjj on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:19AM (#49764782)
Procedures to avoid reliance on chatbot bullsh*t? Really?
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by hdgvhicv on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:45AM (#49764944)
Procedure to assure no reliance on a single person - especially one so junior as implied
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by chrisjj on Saturday September 19, 2026 @09:20AM (#49766387)
As if only a single person was relying on a chatbot...
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by 13415 on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:31PM (#49759865)
I understand what you mean but the phrasing is unfortunate. The people and organizations who use AI are fully responsible for the outcomes of their use of AI.
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by noname120 on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:20PM (#49761024)
Misinformed comment
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by rapind on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:34PM (#49762127)
Prompt fatigue with nukes. --dangerously-skip-permissions
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Re:US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinate... by antonvs on Saturday September 19, 2026 @03:00AM (#49764074)
AI doesn’t kill people, people kill people.
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