Why do our drones keep crashing into synagogues?
“I swear to God, I left my car for like 5 minutes and it crashed through a synagogue by itself”
MechaHitler will be right at home
He got back $200M of his $288M election donation.
Grok goes full nazi and Pentagon thinks “ooh we should hire it!”
Certainly wouldn’t be the first time.
Great, never interrupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake
Ok, Elon will lay off the Epstein jokes for a little while.
And all the pentagons info is compromised…
To be fair it probably has been for a while
Just copy paste it in
No, Elon specifically said to cut and paste.
that would be hilarious
Sure. Why not put mechahitler in charge? May as fucking well.
No, no - It’s because it’s mechahitler that this contract is now in place.
- Grok, summarize our civilization’s positive achievements in the last century.
- Heil Hitler!
- Test passed.
I thought they broke up
THEY WERE ON A BREAK
Dude you can just fucking download open LLM models suited for particular tasks and get a semi competent team of programmers/IT/engineers to do whatever Grok does much better for a minute fraction of that cost. Talk about the department of government inefficiency.
Where are you going to deploy it? On your laptop?
On a 200mil laptop? You can run llama4 on a 64GB RAM machine, albeit slowly, which is already an upper scale model. TBF, I didn’t do the math to see how much that would add up to along with salaries and server costs etc, mainly because this is pentagon we are talking about so it should already have access to some pretty decent computational capacity. So yea 200mil feels like too much when you already have most of the resources needed (compute and open LLM models for specific tasks).
The really huge upside is you don’t have to share confidential information with a company whose CEO is a lunatic who will likely have no qualms about sharing that data with other agents when money and power is involved. Hell you shouldn’t share any confidential/sensitive information with any of the large tech companies to be honest. They have become what they are not by sticking to ethical principles and they are likely to grossly overcharge (which defeats the purpose of outsourcing and makes it more reasonable to invest in permanent infrastructure rather). They will surely use it as some sort of leverage, %100 guaranteed.
I agree that $200M is way too much to spend on a LLMs but talking about downloading open source models is completely missing the point. They are not paying for some sort of Grok license so that they can access this amazing model. They are paying for the computational capacity needed to run this model and provide access to thousands of people over some period of time. The alternative here is to simply buy everyone a subscription to OpenAI or something.
With open source you have the advantage of being able to use different LLMs for different tasks which can be more efficient. Surely Pentagon has access to enough compute power to set this up for a thousand people? The rest is UI, IT and fine tuning by a couple data scientists/programmers trained in LLMs. Surely it is better than Elon who changes his mind on politics every five days and thinks that twenty year olds can run critical government infrastructure because they worship him. Not an expert, just don’t like big tech companies, particularly Melon.
compute power to set this up for a thousand people […], UI, IT and fine tuning by a couple data scientists/programmers trained in LLMs.
Yes, that’s what needed. It’s not just about downloading an open source LLM. That was my point. I see we agree now.
Alright let’s go then!
Living outside the US I’m not sure if I should be glad or terrified by the Pentagon’s incompetence in these worrying times. Maybe I’m… I don’t know, 20% glad and 80% terrified? Sounds about right.
What incompetence? It’s just the usual corruption. It’s 90% of what Pentagon does.
Were it 90% of what Pentagon did, the rest of the world bar China and India would be US territories.
Being corrupt does not get you territories. I just makes you waste money on never ending conflicts so that private contractors can get richer.
Being 90% corrupt gives you more territories than being 99% corrupt
Oh, ok, you’re saying they are more corrupt, not less. Didn’t get it.
It’s even worse when you remember the news from just the other day that grok is looking at elon’s tweets to determine it’s opinion on topics
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What could possibly go wrong?
