"Speaking from the SpaceX headquarters in South Texas on Monday, Secretary of Defense, sorry, War (and gargantuan stain on our patriotic conscience) Pete Hegseth announced Grok will join Google's Gemini to be a part of the Pentagon's new internal AI platform (GenAI.mil) later this month. "Very soon we will have the world's leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department," he said. (Here's a fine example of this "leading model" in action.) "AI is only as good as the data that it receives, and we're going to make sure that it's there.""
"Hegseth was introduced by Elon Musk, who opened the event by talking about SpaceX. "We want to make Star Trek real, he said. "We want to make Starfleet Academy real. So that it's not always science fiction, but one day, the science fiction turns to science fact." (Nice try, Klingon imperialist.) After joining Musk on stage, Hegseth flashed a Vulcan salute, going, "How about this? Star Trek real." Speak big words. Pete Hegseth bad."
Grok, an xAI-run chatbot with a history of spewing Nazi rhetoric, propagating disinformation, sexually harassing women, and generating images that digitally undress women and children including CSAM, will be integrated into the Pentagon's internal AI platform GenAI.mil alongside Google's Gemini. GenAI.mil intends to deploy leading AI models across unclassified and classified Department of Defense networks with access to military data. The inclusion of Grok raises serious concerns about data security, consent, model reliability, and amplification of harmful outputs. The integration was publicized at SpaceX headquarters in South Texas with promotional remarks about making Star Trek-like capabilities real. Limited public details about GenAI.mil increase uncertainty about oversight, safeguards, and mitigation of abusive behaviors.
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