Grok Correctly Predicted The Iran Attack But Claude And ChatGPT Are In The Pentagon’s Sights

Shit’s hitting the fan today. And by ‘shit’ I mean all the AI companies and by ‘fan’ I mean the Pentagon for some reason.

Because it seems that chatbots were heavily used in the US military’s coordinated attack on Iran for some reason.

Firstly there’s Grok that seemed to have correctly predicted when the Iran attack would occur. But genuinely that’s probably coincidence. The experiment was run by The Jerusalem Post last month but was only supposed to show that these chatbots can be easily pushed to say things they’re not supposed to.

Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT all got the dates wrong and we know that Claude was actually used, so the idea that Grok was privy to any kind of classified information isn’t really plausible. But despite that, the internet jumped on the story that Grok knew something we didn’t (this ‘publication’ included) because conspiracy theories LOVE tenuous connections and clickbait LOVES a conspiracy theory.

But to the actual news…

There’s a lot happening and it’s all quite messy but from what I can gather, Claude was actually used to help gather intelligence, select targets and carry out battlefield simulations for the Iran attack. Which is CRAZY on it’s own. Like, sci-fi level stuff here. But do remember that chatbots aren’t AI (despite the branding), they are just very very good LLMs so we haven’t gone full skynet/matrix just yet.

But then Trump said Anthropic is a “Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about” and told the Pentagon not to use it because they objected to its use in the Venezuelan kidnapping.

So then OpenAI swoops in and says, ‘Don’t worry! We don’t have any moral principles whatsoever!’ and signs a contract that let’s the Pentagon use ChatGPT to spy on American citizens. Obviously everyone, including OpenAI’s own employees, objected to this clause and now Sam Altman’s trying to go back on this deal and get some more human rights assurances in the deal.

*deep breath*

I mean that’s like twelve different news stories in one there and it goes even deeper than that. So, please don’t take my word for any of this, I’ve just skim read some articles, I’d recommend checking elsewhere and not relying on Wall Street Memes Dot Com for your news.

But THE POINT IS it feels like we’re reaching a crunch point for AI and government influence over AI. This story likely isn’t going anywhere for a while so watch this space if you want to see our society collapse in real time!

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