OpenAI Signs $200 Million Deal with US Pentagon, Raising Alarm
The US Defense Department's first direct partnership with Open AI fuels concerns over militarized technology– especially as similar systems have already been used to facilitate Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
On Monday, June 16, the United States Department of Defense signed a $200 million contract with OpenAI to deploy generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) for military use, despite the company’s previous commitments not to develop AI tools for warfare.
According to the Pentagon, OpenAI—the US-based creator of ChatGPT—will “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains.”
Under this cooperation, OpenAI plans to demonstrate how advanced AI can enhance administrative functions, such as healthcare for military service members and cyber defense.
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2025/06/217578/openai-signs-200-million-with-us-pentagon-raising-alarm/Open linkView original on lemmy.ml
SHALL WE PLAY A GAME ?
It's gonna nuke everyone just for the name Joshua.
I suppose the good news is that our nuclear weapons systems IRL run on giant floppy disks from 1982. Never did I think that would be a helpful thing
Admiral Adama was right again
Fracking toasters…
I thought that was changing soon?
Annnd "Open"AI goes full evil, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
And the military is going for this? Yikes.
"Ah, my mistake! I suppose that was a bunch of civilians with signs and not combatants with weapons after all. Let's try again. Anyway, is there anything else I can help you with?"
Now combine this with OpenAI's plan to make people wear 24/7 microphone bugs that transcribe all your conversations (See towards the end of the latest Ordinary Things video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuIMZBseAOM) and you get a wonderful dystopian surveillance machine that is a literal 1984 replica.
Ordinary things is awesome, I liked the more video essay format of this one considering the topic
Now you know that Suchir Balaji didn't kill himself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji
I have never heard of someone committing suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head. That is suspicious as fuck.
https://suchir.net/fair_use.html
Still wondering what will be done with all your data?
“Guys why do people hate LLMs??”
All of the white house advisors are already copy pasting from AI because they have no clue what they're doing, so I guess cut out the middleman?
They're literally building skynet: WTF MATE
FINALLY, we were able to create the Torment Nexus
You mean the torment nexus from the famous book, "DONT BUILD THE TORMENT NEXUS"?
Does OpenAI make anything other than chatGPT? Because an LLM honestly didn't seem like a very good AI fit for such an industry that relies on accuracy.
More reason to use others like deepseek and claude, etc.
Claude is run by Anthropic who, unfortunately, is also working with Palantir and the fascists. source: SOURCE
If you can, self-host your LLM's in something like LM Studio (requires a pretty good GPU though)
Very disappointing, thank you for pointing this out
So since I'm not really using any of these ai tools. Can someone explain to me if openai is "open source" as it suggests? If so can't you just see the source code in case they try to ruin it?
I guess an AI can never be truly open in a way? I know this is probably a red flag but I know that a lot of Linux distros which are completely open source are government funded too.
OpenAI is unfortunately named and not open source at all.
I mean, it’s not misfortune it’s an intentional act of deception; kind of like naming yourself national socialists while being racist brownshirts… it’s an intentionally obtuse lie!