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US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report

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gigatexal · 1789777491 · focus · HN ↗
Why are we arguing about whether a bunch of keyboard warriors understands how LLMs work exactly and instead we aren’t flipping out how we almost went to war over a hallucination?! Why is the government especially the intelligence community outsourcing this stuff to AI?!

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