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Viral ChatGPT-powered sentry gun gets shut down by OpenAI (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by phoneymouse to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So it's okay for them to make deals with the military, but not for people to show what their deals with the military contractors might look like... They're literally working with Palmery Luckey's military hardware/surveillance company Anduril...

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1107897/openais-new-defense-contract-completes-its-military-pivot/

https://www.anduril.com/

I would call them hypocrites but they don't care because all they care about is the application of power.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

US military will pay Open AI for this. More than $200/month. Of course this gets shut down.

[–] mydude 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"The US military apparatus has definitely shown potential interest in that kind of automated AI weapons system." No shit Sherlock...

[–] scarabic 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pulling his API key is nothing even close to shutting his project down. But hell I know better than to expect some journalist to have a clue on that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

What are you talking about that's quality journalism by their standards

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Skynet

[–] paraphrand 5 points 2 weeks ago

Hypocrisy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Any chance the videos are hosted somewhere else than TikTok?

[–] HelloHotel 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The military is using a TEXT TRANSFORMER in it's, "look at and shoot it" machine?