…shooting the messenger

…so…look…it dawned on me in time that two things were true…if I didn’t line out enough of these to get at least a rough outline of how it’s both very dumb & also not looking to be accurately grasped by more of the stuff I saw relating to or talking about it…it was going to bug the shit out of me all day…& if I did that in a comment on the DOT…it…would be kind of like the thing they say about icebergs & the waterline…so…I’m…doing this…feel free to ignore the shit out of it & get on about your day…but…if that day shoves a bunch of stuff in front of you about anything that takes you in the direction of “GENAI.MIL”…maybe this wouldn’t be a complete waste of your time?

…ok…so…there’s a just about bottomless depth to the stupid…that part isn’t wrong…but…& I could be the one with the wrong end of the stick about this part…it…isn’t stupid that from outside of the military’s network you wouldn’t be able to connect to or load or interact with something like that?

…not dissing the lady…who is afaik pretty diligent when it comes to the reporting…but…horses for courses…I could eventually find somewhere where someone offered up what seemed to check out as being some supporting documentation…which I haven’t entirely given a close reading or even particularly expect I’d be able to fully parse the jargon that’s presumably load-bearing in places…so…at some point I expect there’s a few people I sometimes borrow from for the DOT contents I might look to for something akin to a digest…but…just as a sort of exercise in trying to figure out what the blurry shape under the waters getting churned really is

…that part…seems to be true…although it’s aiming to broaden out on its foundation models?

…from context that seems like someone coming at it from a not altogether dissimilar tangent where they default to some basic WHOIS type fact-finding as sort of due diligence 101 routine…presumably before they caught any of the stuff that says as much…but…it’s maybe the part where that’s what it’s accessing that has people thinking not being “there” for all the people who can access gemini is a sign they fucked up harder than…well…you saw the posters…the fucking up is plenty hard enough without presupposing maybe the only thing they seem like they didn’t fuck up is part of what makes the whole thing stupid?

…so…without going off on a tear neither one of us has time for today…there’s a huge well of ways that introducing “it seemed pretty crazy but BATTLECOMP said to so that’s what we did” into your command decision matrix…&/or war crimes tribunal transcripts…is…beyond fucking stupid…all the way to being sort of the literal antithesis of the sort of ingenuity & army-of-one stuff that gets you where they used to mean by things like “improvise, adapt & overcome”…but…maybe if you read around on it there’s some strands of the thing that aren’t fucking dumb

…it might have been easier to find something that actually talked about what the fuck it thought it was trying to be without having to wade through a sea of “it doesn’t load for me – epic fail, bro” lazy dunks to find that stuff…but maybe that’s just the internet taking something out on me & not how that arrived for most people

…or…maybe…for most people…even if it’s technically inaccurate…it’s easier to think that not granting universal access to the military black box decision matrix command line prompt…on a model that last I checked any samurai with a decent haiku game can jailbreak the absolute shit out of…is just another point of emphasis for how stupid the whole thing is

“More lethal than ever before.” 🤬🤬🤬

…eh…for now…just the one of those…but you *really* wanted the word “frontier” in there…mr I-need-gear-because-I-have-no-idea bullshit bushido buttmunch…&…maybe it’s just me this reminds of how it seemed too taxing for a lot of people to accept that really quite a lot of the things people got surprised by when edward snowden said them…which they didn’t trip up on when they were staples of films in which their suspension of disbelief for recreational purposes took it in both stride & context…or admit to themselves they’d very possibly have cited an absence of the doing of which in variously-realistic ways given the ancillary scope for such things the nature of the modern networked communications spectrum sort of begs the way some things do that with “the question”…so maybe you care less about any of this than you do or did about the meta metaverse…& how non-deterministic that bid for self-fulfilling nomenclature looks at the minute…but…for the sake of argument…let’s say…that isn’t true…in…uhh…context?

…&…ok…I’m biased…I’m pretty sure I like marisa

…I know…that isn’t technically the GENAI.MIL thing

…but…are folks familiar with the concept of the “early adopter” in “the tech space”?

…so…it was on account of marisa…or…more accurately…on marisa’s account…that I fell into getting this in the face this morning

…&…if you happen to have read a book called snowcrash…maybe you call people in the recording specs “gargoyles” sometimes…they’re not all the way there quite yet but stitch a few of these pieces together & they’re…getting closer?

…the people with the faceless goon squads kidnapping & rendition-ing people & fracturing families for funsies…feel like they need that level of information to not feel threatened by visitors from places they don’t get to do that…& that’s a…”strong man” model, you say?

…there’s all sorts of people who “serve” that I have buckets of respect for…I once had a chat with someone who flew helicopters into combat in order to haul people out of the shit…&…honestly…I respect that person in ways & to an extent that I…just don’t…the person I found out at a school reunion decades ago had gone on to be given control of billions of dollars worth of attack helicopter & used that in some of those same places…& a lot of that has to do with how comfortable I’d be saying that when the latter was less than 18 years of age…they were offensively fucking stupid…& I don’t think it’s ok they wound up sitting on that kind of “kinetic resource”…or that it would improve that picture if they had GENAI.MIL on a HUD while they did

…the messaging for a while has been all about how keeping a stranglehold on the first mover advantage in an AI-centric arms race for the new sine qua non of global dominance is all about “now with more AI”…but…the whole world watched how much tesla walked that talk…&…I’m pretty sure any day now I figure out what to cut off my crop of monthly subs to make space for ed zitron’s paywall-ed stuff just to find out what all the ways nvidia isn’t enron reads like…but…I can’t fit these pieces together in any way that makes a structure that doesn’t fall down faster than you can stack it up?

…I mean…it is decidedly not a good look

Massie, looking at NATO: “somehow, the Warsaw Pact returned”

ah well, we’re back to the same old Massie

…a chat prompt that can always tell you what to do so you can’t be held accountable for your actions is kind of the holy grail for…pretty much the exact sort of people any military that is serious about being an effective one of those wants as far out of its ranks as they can yeet those motherfuckers

…but…with the proviso that I don’t know this is what it looks like & not a proficiently-photoshopped tailor made image to make the point…but…its point would certainly appear to be that if you are in the correct network for the link to work for you & you load the currently available foundation model…at least until that gets defaulted to a mil-spin grok variant…this is how that goes for pete mchairslick?

…the performative parts aren’t the job…so…you let that guy claim he’s the guy…you got no guy doing that job…only worse…because dude ain’t asleep at the switch…he’s drunk behind the wheel

…but…it’s still not dumb that you or I can’t load the prompt for a military-facing chatbot prompt…& making out it would be does not make me think I need to hear your opinion about…well…maybe anything…at least until further notice & some remedial work on the part of that opinion-haver…so…high possibility of a much higher than perceived ambient level of self-owns going around in the dunking parts of the internet today?