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Reality is AI is going to be used to write really really boring reports

Not everything is a spy movie

AI is also currently used to select bombing targets for several years now

It's used for operational efficiency: to select and bomb targets faster and in greater numbers than human analysts are able to

Not everything is boring paperwork

(Source: https://www.livemint.com/ai/israelhamas-war-how-ai-helps-isr... where AI achieved 730x improvement in bombing target selection rate and >300x greater rate of resulting bombs)

Information warfare is a thing. There is no better propaganda machine than a reasonably intelligent AI.

Ah, yes -- to expand on this. You know how some countries employee a large number of people to engage on social media platforms. They have to put in enough good content to build up their rank, and then use that high ranking to subtly put out propaganda which would get more visibility due to their user status. But that takes a lot of effort and manpower.

Now take an LLM that you can feed it questions or discussions from sites, have it jump in with what appears to be meaningful content, gets a bunch of "karma", then gradually start putting out the propaganda. It would be a hard item to fight.

From CNET today

> Today’s Mortgage Rates for Jan. 12, 2024: Rates Cool Off for Homeseekers

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/mortgages/todays-rates...

And yesterday

> Mortgage Rates for Jan. 11, 2024: Major Mortgage Rates Are Mixed Over the Last Week

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/mortgages/todays-rates...

And the day before

> Current Mortgage Interest Rates on Jan. 10, 2024: Rates Move Upward Over the Last Week

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/mortgages/todays-rates...

You get the idea.

I love that whenever one of these threads shows up, someone always appears to suggest that banality and evil are entirely separate from one another, despite the entire history of the 20th century.

I don't think that's what parent did?

It's also going to be used to read those really boring reports

I've also read, they're using AI to declassify materials. Humans still make the high level decisions, language models tackle the boring work of reacting text and whatnot.

And FOIA requests; getting a jump on the eventual bloom.

Luckily, that same LLM can summarize that really really boring report... and, if you ask it to, it'll make it exciting, as well. Maybe too exciting...?!

"Please summarize these docs, highlighting the reasons to attack Mars while downplaying any mentioned downsides and costs"

Or, you know, it just hallucinating and people not checking it. But that would be as silly as lawyers citing non-existent AI-hallucinated legal cases.

At best it improves the chow in the mess hall.

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