Likely wasn’t an hallucination but directed killing of children of parents who might be employed by the Iranian Navy in the coastal city of Minab.
Given some of the statements Pete Hegseth has made on this (ex: “war is hell”), I’m inclined to believe reports that claim it was a deliberate attack.
Blaming AI is convenient to absolve the Western leaders and commanders that might have made these decisions. During the Iraq war, such killings by Western armed groups were covered up for years & perpetrators acquitted despite eye witnesses.
This seems plausible from my first-hand perspective of the Iraq war and what we gleaned years later with wikileaks and other revalations. The Iraq war would be one of the last wars where civilian surveillance was far less accessible, so any invading government had the power to build and support western journalists who were more aligned with their narratives and watered down “counter-narratives”.
Going into this war, the citizens now have the ability to record what is happening firsthand, so the invading government no longer has the luxury of such tight controls beyond their own technology and procedures.
I’m simply piling on that this may well be the main reason GenAI is being heavily sought out as the scapegoat for operations both domestic and abroad. I think that Pete Hegseth for all his lack of awareness to IT security, knows that bringing GenAI into the fold gives him and his leadership a narrative that relinquishes them of at least some accountability. They likely see GenAI’s stochastic nature and the public being mesmerised by its seemingly superhuman abilities as a feature rather than a bug. This is why I doubt they are even thinking of connecting it to ICBMs as they know that it puts the hair trigger process of setting off nuclear war into a near inevitability versus something that is highly likely some time in the future.
But small missles that kill tens to hundreds is part for the course for adding AI and “just part of war” as those who normalize or enjoy killing often say. Followed by some cover up and vague follow up and apologies, then back to business.
Didn’t got the time to read this one, very unfortunate but I could somewhat understand the political aspect of it?
I mean, I haven’t read it so hard to judge tho.
PS: the other single threads talked about below are:
Maybe can you stop involving yourself in every single moderation concern you can find? Your critisim is fairly clear already. We dont need you to waste more of our time and bug the moderation more than neccesary. I would really apprechiate if you leave the moderation to the people who actually have all the context and you not commenting in every single thread moderated where you have no bloody clue of the background of it and why we do things. Cc. @jonah