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OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by ManlyBread »

grafmax wrote: post #113
deletedie wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai... If the physical disconnect between killing a person (e.g. UAVs) wasn't enough to make that task easier then further offloading the decision of who to target might help.

With rising authoritarianism in the US it is highly likely the military will be increasingly deployed against US citizens. Replacing the humans in the loop with AI removes a key safeguard. We’re heading down a very very dark path.

What is this fear mongering?

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #46
ungreased0675 wrote: post #30

Judging from how the DoD currently buys software, lots of money will be spent, many headlines will be written, awards will be handed out, and zero software will make it on to user workstations. End users will continue to use Excel for everything.

200 mil is chump change for them, if prototype turned to be good then good for them but if its not then they are not worry

200 mil for a government contract is peanuts when you see how much taxpayer money governments loose via waste and corruption

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by naabb »

ManlyBread wrote: post #131
grafmax wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With rising authoritarianism in the US it is highly likely the military will be increasingly deployed against US citizens. Replacing the humans in the loop with AI removes a key safeguard. We’re heading down a very very dark path.

What is this fear mongering?

It's the reality of the situation.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by raizer88 »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #132
tonyhart7 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

200 mil is chump change for them, if prototype turned to be good then good for them but if its not then they are not worry

200 mil for a government contract is peanuts when you see how much taxpayer money governments loose via waste and corruption

DOGE found basically nothing, and they worked with an axe trying to cut anything that come close to waste. So I am not sure where you see all this "waste and corruption".

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

raizer88 wrote: post #134
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

200 mil for a government contract is peanuts when you see how much taxpayer money governments loose via waste and corruption

DOGE found basically nothing, and they worked with an axe trying to cut anything that come close to waste. So I am not sure where you see all this "waste and corruption".

Bad faith argument. Why are you moving the discussion to DOGE when that's not what I was talking about?

You know the word "governments" that I used, means a lot more than the current TRUMP administration, right? Broaden your mind and PoV.

And also, how can you say with a straight face there isn't ongoing and never has been waste and corruption in any government? Again, think for yourself, ignore $CURRENT_EVENTS.

Look at your nation's government contracts that funnel taxpayer money to private pockets, then look at the output. Has there been value delivered proportional to the money spent at reasonable market rates? If not, then money was definitely wasted via incompetence, pocketed via corruption, or both.

This is so prevalent and is has become the norm everywhere for so long, that people are not even giving it a second thought anymore when it comes to government corruption, but somehow people want to be spoon-fed sources as if it's an unbelievable conspiracy theory.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

sillystu04 wrote: post #122
baxtr wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> End users will continue to use Excel for everything. Wait, I thought AI is killing all these jobs?!

Quite the opposite. AI will enable the creation of ever more macros and guide users to make even more elaborate pivot tables.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1667/

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by zimpenfish »

raizer88 wrote: post #134
FirmwareBurner wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

200 mil for a government contract is peanuts when you see how much taxpayer money governments loose via waste and corruption

DOGE found basically nothing, and they worked with an axe trying to cut anything that come close to waste. So I am not sure where you see all this "waste and corruption".

> "waste and corruption"

Well, "waste" is often defined by conservatives as "anything spent on the poors and/or not given to the rich" - by that standard, yeah, there's a lot of "waste" in the US government.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by batty_alex »

ZeroTalent wrote: post #116
ringeryless wrote: post #88

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and LLMs are the opposite of automation, the opposite of a human intention amplifier like CAD CAM, or chef puppet ansible terraform whatever, aka non deterministic

LLMs enable amplified automation. Example: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.13.25329541v... At my company, we use LLMs for financial analysis that previously required hundreds of employees, and that work would have been inferior anyway because it's so hard to make so many people to communicate well to identify correlations.

Is this "vibe researching"?

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Post by nkrisc »

FirmwareBurner wrote: post #136
raizer88 wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DOGE found basically nothing, and they worked with an axe trying to cut anything that come close to waste. So I am not sure where you see all this "waste and corruption".

Bad faith argument. Why are you moving the discussion to DOGE when that's not what I was talking about? You know the word "governments" that I used, means a lot more than the current TRUMP administration, right? Broaden your mind and PoV. And also, how can you say with a straight face there isn't ongoing and never has been waste and corruption in any government? Again, think for yourself, ignore $CURRENT_EVENTS. Look…

Step up, throw down some numbers and sources.
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