h/t to Ed Zitron: https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mfxqjqoias2q
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WSJ
PATRICK SISON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools.
Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic's Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed.
Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran.
The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the
company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.
The administration and Anthropic have been feuding for months over how its AI models can be used by the
Pentagon. Trump on Friday ordered agencies to stop working with the company and the Defense Department designated it a security threat and risk to its supply chain.
Simulated battle scenarios are a common component of wargaming. That doesn't mean an LLM is the right tool for it, but it's been a thing for a long time.
The bigger concern here is using it for intelligence assessments and target acquisition, because LLMs hallucinate a lot.
That's fair, I only meant it to poke fun at the LLM simulating battle scenarios, I know it's useful in general to simulate and wargame
Yeah, an LLM is not designed for those kinds of simulations. It can write you a choose-your-own adventure story, but it can't realistically model dynamic kinetic operations with any degree of applicability.
as a side effect, it's a phenomenal accountability sink. people almost forget that usaf can make entirely human-made fuckups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiriyah_shelter_bombing