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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 munificent »

upghost wrote: post #3

Does anyone have any idea what the DoD could possibly want from OpenAI? Less accurate/more sycophantic missiles?

1. Secretary of Defense feels like bombing some place. Asks aide to write a report on, justification, logistics, and consequences.

2. Aide tells subordinate to write report.

3. Subordinate uses ChatGPT to write the 100-page report. Sends it to aide.

4. Aide uses ChatGPT to summarize report. Sends summary to SecDef.

5. SecDef accidentally posts summary on publicly-accessible social media page, then forwards to President.

6. Bombs go boom.

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

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Post by paxys »

upghost wrote: post #3

Does anyone have any idea what the DoD could possibly want from OpenAI? Less accurate/more sycophantic missiles?

> “This contract, with a $200 million ceiling, will bring OpenAI’s industry-leading expertise to help the Defense Department identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data, to supporting proactive cyber defense,”

Translated - they'll hand out GPT access to a bunch of service members and administrators. Except the UI will have a big DoD logo and words like "SECURE" and "CLASSIFIED" will be displayed on it a few dozen times.

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

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Post by tonyhart7 »

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

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Post by gxs »

This, this is why I have such an issue with the amount of taxes I pay

Not because I’m anti social programs the way people like to immediately assume, but because of dumb shit like this that I have no control over

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

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Post by bix6 »

layoric wrote: post #16

That should shore up their financials given their.. checks notes $12B in operational costs. /s Hope it's worth it.

$10B run rate now so they can just plug the gap with $2B in ads!?! Hot DoD singles near you! Would you like me to generate an image of their stealth package ;) ?
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