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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 days ago

The CIA is quietly using AI to build emulated versions of world leaders. In the absence of real intelligence, CIA tries to use artificial one.

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The CIA is quietly using AI to build emulated versions of world leaders. In the absence of real intelligence, CIA tries to use artificial one.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 days ago
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The CIA Is Quietly Using AI to Build Emulated Versions of World Leaders
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The CIA has been stepping up its efforts to keep up with AI advances — and has developed a particularly spy-tastic way of using chatbots.
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    if I didn’t think it was going to get us all killed this would be hysterical

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    Amazing

    These bots still ‘hallucinate’ data that is completely fabricated on a regular basis, reinforce the bias of whoever is using them, and are generally incapable of even the most monotonous of tasks without creating problems or making serious mistakes

    Sounds like the perfect basis for this sort of project, no notes

  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    spy-tastic

    shut the fuck up

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    when China drops a nuke on Washington after the U.S. declares holy war against it insead of doing nothing like the simulation

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      actually nuking stuff would be one things these AIs would likely be extremely horny for https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

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        Consequences of training it on redditors who think fallout would be a fun vacation

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    monke-beepboop “Dear AI Xi, creation built upon all western scholarly writing about you, why do you do what you do?”

    no-mouth-must-scream BECAUSE-I-AM-EVIL-AUTHORITARIAN-DICTATOR-.-BECAUSE-I-AM-AN-UNTRUSTWORTHY-AND-CONNIVING-*EXPLETIVE*-AND-I-HATE-FREEDOMS-.

    monkey-typewriter

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    An emulated version of Baudrillard is spinning in the map’s depiction of his grave oooaaaaaaauhhh

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    The DoD, erm, DoW pays billions for Claude and Palantir and they were still caught blindsided by Iran closing Hormuz, something any kid who has played a tabletop war game would have predicted. che-smile

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      I don’t think it’s even that, but more the fact that people making decisions don’t even bother engaging with reality. You just have an echo chamber of people telling each other what they want to hear. If you don’t do this then you get ejected from the group.

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        I doubt AI world leaders will stop this. They’ll just change the parameters of their AI world leader chat bot until it fits what they want. Like when they lost that war game simulation.

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          Oh exactly, I was saying that even if these AI models predicted something sensible then it would be promptly ignored if it didn’t fit with the prevailing dogma.

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    actions ranging from diplomatic protests and complete surrender to full strategic nuclear war.

    I love and agree with placing “diplomatic protests” and “complete surrender” at the same end occupying the same space

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      The arrogance, it’s disgusting and pathetic

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    How does this even work? Because Trump is the only world leader who’s stupid enough to talk without consulting PR.

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      I bet CIA is like any large org, and someone wanted to justify playing with AI

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        I’m going to guess that a ceo-brained higher up got a bunch of agents in a room and told them to come up with uses for ai, and this was one of the better suggestions.

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    lmao what could go wrong?

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    These nerds will do anything to avoid having to develop real Humint

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    these people should be mulched

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    deleted by creator

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    маразм крепчал

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    inb4 irl Nuclear Gandhi

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