According to the officials who spoke to Bloomberg, some personnel inside U.S. Central Command leaned too hard on [Palantir] to accelerate intelligence analysis and decision-making. The Defense Department has reportedly made the software tool a cornerstone of military operations over the past year… Officials said some users expected Maven to flag stale records or contradictions in the intelligence assembled for potential targets, though it is not clear why they thought the system would do that. The Minab [elementary school massacre] site, which was cataloged as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility due to outdated data, was fed into Maven with other candidates and came out as a recommended day-one target. Target-list work that once took hours was condensed into minutes.
A Palantir spokesperson told Bloomberg the company “is not responsible for the underlying data nor identifying intelligence deficiencies” and that there is no evidence its software was at fault. Two people familiar with Palantir’s Pentagon contracts said the government keeps primary responsibility for the quality of the information that’s fed into Maven.
I think the Pentagon is looking for a fall guy for the attack and they know Palantir will take it. While the Obama administration still continued bombings and assassinations, the administration required approval to go through the White House rather than trust internal DoD procedures. This went away when Trump took office.
My guess is that the DoD didn’t have the procedures in place to figure this shit out but they now need someone to blame.
Repeat after me: a computer can never be held accountable, therefor a computer must absolutely fucking not be part of the decision making process of a kill chain.
Jesus Christ.
A computer must be part of the process so no human has to take the blame!
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Doesn’t change a thing, unforgivable.
Holding people accountable that are responsible is kind of the most important fucking thing…
It doesn’t mean you let anyone in the government off, it means when we get a rational government again, we hold this admin and the corps they collaborate with responsible.
You (and this should be really obvious) can’t hold everyone responsible to account if you don’t know who all was responsible.
I think the administration is lying, as usual. They have brains like teenagers and thought, “killing off their families will show them who’s boss and they will cower in fear at our mighty might! And then the people will rise up and revolt against their wounded leaders”. But in fact what actually happened is they gave the extreme right wing in Iran even more control by doing this. The extremists got to say, “I told you they want to destroy our civilization and take our resources” and the people unified and sided with leadership against the foreign invader.
They know it doesn’t win wars. Israel doesn’t want a resolved war. Only pure destruction of Iran, and all political power in US is Israel first. When cruelty makes the enemy uppitty, rulership just yells harder about how they just hate America.
Yes. The only newsworthy thing about this is that the administration is sufficiently embarassed that it’s throwing AI under the bus. Nobody in the rest of the world is buying this cover story. The US is a terror regime that deliberately tortures and murders civilians.
Gonna be really fvcking awful hearing about what went on at the concentration camps in a few years.
Yeah we’re already hearing about people being put in phone booth sized cages. I wonder if the administration will continue to block access after the mid terms.
They could also very much want the right wing in power in Iran which will then give them enough acceptance in the international community to invade and feed the ever hungry war machine. Palantir usage and therefore profits lieterally rise if that happens, so it’s in their interest to ensure war as much as possible.
Absolutely. Conservatives need an external enemy to take and maintain power. In the west, a large part of their power comes from the military industrial complex which cannot exist without additional conflict.
And yet, the ai driven bombings will continue until morale improves.
Fuck you both
Who ever ordered it is responsible for blindly listening to the random generator.
Not a single company, it’s the pretrained generative “AI” that’s the issue
Target-list work that once took hours was condensed into minutes.
Imagine wasting hours on a decision like this. /s
I would spend hours making sure I don’t buy the wrong wheel bearing, in case I lose $123. Losing 123 lives because you don’t cross-reference a target list is inexcusable.
They didn’t lose 123 lives. The other team did
Where I was, the day-one news was mostly focused on the US bombing a girls school. It made the war unpopular from the very start.
This is a gross way to “other” a bunch of children. Please be more mindful in your thoughts next time.
That’s the point. That’s how they think
Dumb ass losers.
So the Pentagon is at fault, got it.
Whoopsie! Will try better next time, appreciate the absolute void of consequences.
Super Intelligence at work…
