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Elon's own xAI chatbot divulges Nuclear War Plans

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This is outrage-bait, and more importantly, generated by an LLM so everyone can confidently assume it's false. This is not intellectually gratifying or evidence of a new phenomenon, it is Elon-flavored sensationalism.

Which statements do you disagree with? It has a citation for most everything.

I disagree with the process. You cannot ask an AI anything and expect to get authoritative answers; I'm not going to do your job for you and fact-check an LLM's opinion. You put too much faith in the competence of chatbots and it will make you look like a fool if you claim it "divulges Nuclear War Plans" when it's only stroking your ego and autocompleting what you ask.

You're just going to look like a child running everywhere saying "the sky is falling!" when your cited source is some billionaire's vanity project. Not a single reputable person would take you seriously in this scenario, and to preserve my own reputation I won't either.

Sounds like an ad hominem attack... or ad-machinum?

Am I wrong? If anyone knows of a chatbot that has never lied before, don't hold your breath; speak up now.

the point is you judge the facts for themselves

The point is that your facts are generated by a fiction-making machine. I'm not wasting my time judging any of that.

The xAI bot provides a timeline of SDI (space militarization). It highlights the pivotal partnership between Musk and Mike Griffin.

In 05, Griffin is made head of NASA, creates COTS, gets 20 apps for COTS funds and awards them to SpaceX (and his own OSC corp).

In 18, Griffin is made head of Space Dev and awards SDI contracts to StarLink and L3.

timeline excerpts:

Feb. 2002: Elon Musk travels to Russia with Mike Griffin to examine refurbished Dnepr ICBMs.

Mar. 2002: SpaceX is founded and incorporated in Delaware & Elon asks Griffin to be SpaceX's Chief Engineer, who declines and continues with In-Q-Tel. (VC firm firehosing cash to CIA vendors)

Apr. 2004: Elon names his next born son Griffin Musk.

Apr. 2005: Mike Griffin sworn in as NASA Administrator by Dick Cheney.

Jun. 2005: Mike Grifin creates the NASA COTS program. (Commercial Orbital Transport Services)

Jun. 2006: SpaceX is one of twenty different companies to apply for NASA COTS program.

Aug. 2006: SpaceX is chosen before proving any launches. Splits funds with Rocketplane.

Dec. 2007: Griffin terminates Rocketplane from COTS program, and gives funds to SpaceX and his own (former President and CTO) Orbital Sciences company.

Sep. 2008: SpaceX nears banckruptcy after failed launches.

Dec. 2008: SpaceX awarded new CRS funds by NASA, saving the company.

Jan. 2009: Griffin leaves NASA with the outgoing Bush Administration.

Feb. 2018: Mike Griffin made USD(R&E) and creates the Space Development Agency (SDA).

Oct. 2020: SpaceX awarded first SDA contract

The contract from Griffin's agency was given to L3Harris and SpaceX to build Starlink military satellites.

In 2018, CIA Director Mike Pompeo called the project a “Strategic Defense Initiative for our time, the SDI II".

"Elon Musk is a brilliant luminary"

Is Elon personally RLHFing this thing?

must be training that thing on classified docs!

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