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Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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I'm really curious to understand why this was done and why it was necessary. I cannot imagine the AI was used to identify targets without any base information. ie, I imagine the military already had a list of targets and locations. How would the AI know from satellite imagery that something was a military target. If that's the case, why did they need help selecting targets? I can only imagine that the military bases…

Google for The Atlantic Dexter Filkins article on targeting with AI.

Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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post #25

I'm really curious to understand why this was done and why it was necessary. I cannot imagine the AI was used to identify targets without any base information. ie, I imagine the military already had a list of targets and locations. How would the AI know from satellite imagery that something was a military target. If that's the case, why did they need help selecting targets? I can only imagine that the military bases…

This is wild guess. I'm working with GIS and Claude has proven to be extremely savvy. I can see operators throwing hundreds of layers and coming back with a "there a possible military installation here". Same tech that is used to find unregulated pools, or measuring the density of parking lots, or Nazca lines, but much more on demand for specific purposes. Just to clarify, I don't condone the use of AI for guessing t…

Interesting. I wonder if someone will be guest speaker at one of the podcasts in 30 years time and talk about this kind of stuff

Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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Is that what targeted the school? Or was that intentional?

School was part of the base few years back, there is still guard tower right next to it and tons of social media pictures of military doing military things inside the school. No need for AI to make that mistake.

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I’m guessing there won’t be a lot of Palmer Luckey fans among the commenters here

What does this mean? I know he has a weaponry startup, Anduril, that has some Palantir financial ties. But I don't see the connection in the article.

I think they mean a general “anti war machine” sentiment in this forum. +1 to that sentiment from me, we are going quickly from “clean nuclear power” to “big bombs!”

Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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So will there be droves of people canceling their Claude subscription too? None of these companies are clean and I think it’s hilarious HN and the rest of SV has been duped by Dario. He’s playing the game better than Sam is, imo. Nothing Dario has said has indicated he is regretful about their partnership with Palantir or any of the stuff they’ve done with the DoD in the past 2.5 years. Edit: this Washington Post art…

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Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The school was a seperate building so targeting or weapon precision was pretty sloppy. The shift toward war crime whataboutism is a new low for HN, capping off a week of aggressive warmongering and intellectualized cruelty in every comment thread about Iran.

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Case in point.

Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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I'm really curious to understand why this was done and why it was necessary. I cannot imagine the AI was used to identify targets without any base information. ie, I imagine the military already had a list of targets and locations. How would the AI know from satellite imagery that something was a military target. If that's the case, why did they need help selecting targets? I can only imagine that the military bases…

You have 1000 launches going off from Iran in 24 hour period. Do you have hundreds of people look at pixels of prUmpt the AI to track it back to sources?
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