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"I got a tip yesterday from an anonymous US army officer that the US government
was about to break new ground in authoritarian dumbassery. The officer had
logged into his work computer in the morning, and got a popup:
GenAI.mil. Victory belongs to those who embrace real innovation, not the
antiquated systems of a bygone era. It’s time to deliver efficient, decisive
results for the warfighter. I want YOU to use AI.
Then he clicked on the “close” button and it played a video from defense
secretary Pete Hegseth, telling you how much AI is the future:
The future of American warfare is here. And it’s spelled AI.
… At the click of a button, AI models on GenAI can be utilized to conduct
deep research, format documents, and even analyze video or imagery at
unprecedented speed.
The popup also had a link to genai.mil/launch — which didn’t work.
GenAI.mil was giving an error message yesterday, but now has a nice splash page
saying it’s for internal use only and you should join the army for access.
The logo, like all chatbot logos, looks like a butthole. The stylised text font
looks somewhere between the ‘70s NASA worm logo and one of the
Starship
Troopers movie fonts. Hegseth is the guy who saw
Starship Troopers and
didn’t realise it was a satire of guys like him."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
