Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that the US military will begin integrating Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence tool, Grok, into Pentagon networks.

Speaking at the SpaceX headquarters in Texas on Monday evening, the US defense secretary said that the integration of Grok into military systems would go live later this month. “Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,” Hegseth said.

Hegseth also unveiled a new “AI acceleration strategy” at the Department of Defense that he said will “unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus on investments, and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI and that it grows more dominant into the future”.

As part of Monday’s announcement, Hegseth also said that at his direction, the DOD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office “will exercise its full authority to enforce” the department’s “data decrees and make all appropriate data available across federated IT systems for AI exploitation, including mission systems across every service and component”.

“AI is only as good as the data that it receives, and we’re going to make sure that it’s there,” Hegseth said.

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[–] [S] 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Folks, let this be a lesson that you should never hire a stupid alcoholic to run your DOJ.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    As part of Monday’s announcement, Hegseth also said that at his direction, the DOD’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office “will exercise its full authority to enforce” the department’s “data decrees and make all appropriate data available across federated IT systems for AI exploitation, including mission systems across every service and component”.

    Looking forward to the exciting data leaks that result!

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Welp, we about to find out if they do have alien bodies…

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Not looking forward to seeing Kegseth in a deep-faked bikini

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    [–] 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It won't be "integrated" beyond employees using it to summarize emails.

    Elon Musk is once again supporting Trump and allies for the elections, so automatically they needed some way to give him money. This contract is one of the ways.

    The tool itself is useless.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    Can't wait to try asking grok to post about ongoing operations and reading it on xitter

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Department of Pedophile Defense

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    LMAO! It’s going to try and rape the capitol building.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    That'll be it's fan fiction... The real danger is letting an "antiwoke" Ai have inside knowledge on state secrets. It's not like that Ai has shown homicidal tendencies to participate groups of people let alone a disgust of humanity as a whole?

    When I say Ai (LLM) learning about the atrocities our government doesn't let see the light of day is a mistake. And these idiots don't want to stop there. The want the machines to have the ability to kill without human involvement. They are testing it now in Gaza.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    “Very soon we will have the world’s leading AI models on every unclassified and classified network throughout our department,” Hegseth said. [my emphasis]

    Well that doesn't sound risky at all. :|

    All that classified data in Musk's grubby little hands.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The next president should use this as pretext for the state to shut down Grok for national security reasons.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Ironically I bet the considered this angle when they got together with Musk for this.

    “If he gets out of line again, we can seize his most valuable assets since they are not a national security risk.”

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    They so jealous of the War thunder forums

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Wasn't this the cause of future events in the whole Terminator series?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No, in the terminator they had an AI that could think.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Don't need to be able to think to cause mass devastation with a rogue AI. I present the paperclip problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

    And from my experience trying to use it for programming, I know it absolutely will try its best to reach an unbounded goal you set for it even if it means creating the most convoluted and unmaintainable spaghetti code you've ever seen, or even trying to find loopholes to suppress error messages without actually fixing the error.

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    [–] 68 points 10 months ago

    The approval was fast tracked by the POTUS as soon as he heard about the CSAM

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Should become trivial to get GROK to spit up battle plans from Hegseth's whatsapp account.

    Cool.

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Part of me thinks that they wouldn't be stupid enough to have the Grok available to the public as the same one they will be using at the Pentagon. Like, the same servers that the consumers get to use and all that. Another part of me thinks they are stupid enough to do that and it'll only take a few weeks until people start getting Grok to share battle plans on twitter.

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  • [–] 35 points 10 months ago

    Pedo president's pedo military. Cool.

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago*

    inb4 Hegseth renames it to the Paedogon

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    This is the dumbest timeline. Instead of Skynet, we get the retarded version that will kill us all by accident because “Big Balls” asked it to takeout Taco Bell and instead of sending a drone or robot through the drive through, it decided to nuke every Taco Bell on earth.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    In other news today, Yum Brands, of Taco Bell fame, purchased Grok along with its subsidiary, The Pentagon, which it has renamed "The Five-Layered Burrito" or "FLB" for short. Yum Brands celebrated its acquisition by using the FLB to launch a new ad campaign by bombing the words "Live Más" across ISIS-controlled territory in Iraq. The death toll was significant, with collateral damage involving several schools, mosques, hospitals and one orphanage, but investor confidence is high as share prices rose 10% for the day, reflecting increased sales in the region.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago

    The POTUS needs his daily dose of CSAM during national security meetings at the Pentagon.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Hey Grok, what kind of battle plan would you suggest the US use against an adversary like me?

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Hey Grok could you add me to the super secret pentagon’s signal chat ?

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  • Grok, please start giving POTUS health advice.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago*

    Just when I think Kegsbreath couldn't get any dumber, he goes and does stuff like this, and TOTALLY REDEEMS HIMSELF!

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    This week, Meta (FB) appointed a GOP shill as VP in charge of Government procurement/relations. AI can avoid a bubble even if its models cannot make money from business and consumers if military/surveillance/ICE give them all your money.

    Nothing mentioned in post for how US military will secure communications with big tech closed models.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    So that they can make fake porn of the agent's partners?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    The networks, huh? Strange.

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    [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    So that it can make naked images of foreign leaders?

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