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The US military reportedly used Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, to inform its attack on Iran despite Donald Trump’s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the company and its artificial intelligence tools.

The use of Claude during the massive joint US-Israel bombardment of Iran that began on Saturday was reported by the Wall Street Journal and Axios. It underlines the complexity of the US military withdrawing powerful AI tools from its missions when the technology is already intricately embedded in operations.

According to the Journal, US military command used the tools for intelligence purposes, as well as to help select targets and carry out battlefield simulations.

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Donald Trump’s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the company and its Actually Indians tools.

That's one helluva typo for whoever made it.

[–] dan@upvote.au 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The article says "artificial intelligence" so I guess OP has a browser extension that changes it to "Actually Indians"

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Actually, thanks for pointing that out. Thanks. That was not intended.

Edit: Apparently, it came from my Microslop extension. Guess I accidentally overlooked that.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Blame the Actually Indians who wrote the code

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I use fox replace to do this, except mine is to replace slams with criticizes.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

From now on, whenever I see "AI", I will parse the text as referring to Actual Indians

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Anal Inflammation

...espite Donald Trump’s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the company and its anal inflammation tools.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 27 points 2 weeks ago

BS, trump knew and probably encouraged it. He lies more than he breathes.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, that explains the elementary school getting bombed. The military isn't usually that terrible at hitting their targets.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Uh, are you thinking of the same US military I am?

I bet if I looked hard enough I could find the specific examples of the US bombing schools and hospitals in Iraq.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

But not on the first day, that’s when the news still reports it!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would like to see what you find. I bet it wasn't the first strike when starting the war?

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You'd be surprised. Look up "operation desert fox".

This particular instance is a bit strange, because Sadam Hussein had constructed anti-aircraft batteries atop hospitals, so it's kinda on him. But regardless, that didn't stop us from blowing away those buildings on day one.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You sure about that? There’s a reason for the joke “do you know the difference between an elementary and an enemies base? I don’t, I just fly the drone”. That one is at least ten years old.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That one is at least ten years old.

And so is the tech that that joke is based on. Satellites are pretty great right now.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

True but my point was the fact that the military sometimes hits stormtrooper levels of accuracy and has for a long time.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

When Claude refuses to work for the military and sues the government (Claude directly, not Anthropic), now THAT will finally make me a believer

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Took me a minute to figure out what you meant, but that’s a pretty funny concept.