Pentagon used Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says

5 days ago by sanitation to c/technology

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metermatic26 67 points 5 days ago

Is that why the US bombed a school?

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MaggiWuerze 16 points 5 days ago

You think the pedoAI wanted to remove the competition?

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Bob 7 points 4 days ago

At the time I remember hearing that they were using the Maven Smart System, which uses Claude, for target selection. That system is supposed to have a human in the loop, but it’s probably easy to get complacent and just sign off on whatever the model recommends.

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Fisch -10 points 5 days ago

Serious answer, I heard somewhere that apparently it's common to start a war with an attack that will get the population of the opposing country angry. Killing children is an effective way to do that. If I remember correctly, the point is to get the country to attack back, so you can better justify the war to your own population.

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Blue_Morpho 37 points 5 days ago

That makes no sense. You are already at war. You have already justified it. Getting the other country to defend harder is not what you want. You want to win.

Bombing a school wasn't 5D chess by Trump. It was incompetence.

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GreenKnight23 2 points 4 days ago

what do you mean it doesn't make sense?

it worked for 9/11 didn't it?

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Fisch -7 points 5 days ago

I don't see how it doesn't make sense to build the justification after attacking. It takes time for people to actually show their disagreement in a way that hurts the state and they're quick to forget once an attack hits them. Also, it still makes sense for the state to build further justifications even if they've already justified it. For this instance in particular, I don't think there really was any justification and if I remember correctly, the population heavily disagrees with this war.

I also think it's a big mistake to equate everything that the state does under Trump to him just being stupid, it makes you blind to what's actually being planned and carried out. You should always try to analyze what the intent behind actions like this is and only if you can't find any reasons at all is it maybe justified to say it's just the government being stupid.

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Blue_Morpho 9 points 5 days ago

I don't see how it doesn't make sense to build the justification after attacking.

You are already bombing. The justification is done. Politically it reduces justification because the public (as was shown) is now against the bombing. When Trump attacked Venezuela, he didn't bomb a school, wait a week, and then kidnap Maduro.

Getting the other country to attack to justify war only works if you either make it look like they attacked first (false flag), or have deniability on your attack so their retribution can be spun into a first attck. (Secretly bomb the school with spies but leave evidence so they know it was you but can't prove it.)

So there is absolutely no reason militarily or politically.

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Passerby6497 2 points 5 days ago

That might work if the zionazis weren't actively showing they want to cleanse Palestine so they can move in.

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rangber 36 points 5 days ago

And lost.

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Telorand 23 points 4 days ago

And the DoJ is trying to prevent xAI from having to go through a current lawsuit over their unlicensed gas turbines, because they power the data centers for Grok.

Brazen corruption and ineptitude from top to bottom.

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andallthat 17 points 4 days ago

To be fair, the prompt was "what shade of gold should the curtains be in my new ballroom?"

[ Reasoning.... The user wants me to initiate a war with Iran.... Firing 2000 missiles on random objectives... Done. Back to undressing kids on X... ]

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webkitten 12 points 4 days ago

Can I ask Grok to fire 200 missiles at Elon's house?

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green_goglin 3 points 4 days ago

Yes

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sundray 10 points 5 days ago

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BrianTheeBiscuiteer 7 points 5 days ago

Thank God. More people might've been killed without it.

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k0e3 5 points 4 days ago

Trump: Hey Grok, should I fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, or nah?

Grok: Done.

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phutatorius 4 points 4 days ago

Throwing a handful of darts at a map would have been cheaper and no worse.

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Kazumara 3 points 4 days ago

Is there a term for "lying by imprecise wording likely to be interpreted in a more serious way that what is actually the supportable message"? Because this headline is such a prime example.

When you read this it sounds like Grok fired missiles in some way. But the actually supportable message is that it was used in target selection, and its speed enabled the missile attack to reach such a scale in a short time frame.

Edit: Not that I think that's good or anything, don't get me wrong. I'm just railing against the shoddy journalism, despite the horrifying content.

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LotrOrc 5 points 4 days ago

No it really doesnt. It reads as though they used Grok in the shooting of 2000 missiles. If you thought they just gave Grok control of the missiles and Grok went off like a 10 year old on Call of Duty then idk what to say.

I would say this is just as bad as Grok having actual control though, as I doubt these fools in charge double checked anything Grok put out about targets, hence the killing of 168 school girls on the first day.

But for months they've been reporting theyre using AI to choose targets im not sure why this would be any different.

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