OpenAI Shacks Up With the Pentagon, Promises to Pull Out (They Won’t)

Christ on a crutch. Look what the cat dragged in—OpenAI finally admitting they’ve been sleeping with the Pentagon, and they’ve got the classified hickeys to prove it. After months of coyly beating around the bush like a virgin at a sysadmin convention, they’ve decided to come clean about their torrid little affair with the US military-industrial complex. How fucking precious.

Apparently, the same bunch of brainiacs who couldn’t keep their CEO from getting sacked by a board of directors using a Ouija board are now “proud” to announce they’re helping the Defense Department with “cybersecurity tools” and “veteran support applications.” Sure, and I’m the Queen of England’s personal vibrator technician. We all know this ends with autonomous drones powered by ChatGPT arguing with each other about whether the thermal signature they’re tracking is a “camel” or a “legitimate military target” before lighting up the village anyway.

They’ve conveniently memory-holed that little policy about not using their toys for “military and warfare” purposes. Poof! Gone faster than a luser’s files when I “accidentally” run a magnet over the backup tapes. Now it’s all about “responsible AI deployment for national security.” Responsible. Right. That’s like saying you’re going to responsibly fuck a hornets’ nest with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Someone’s getting stung, and it ain’t the politicians signing the checks.

The press release—because of course there’s a press release, these wankers can’t take a shit without issuing a press release about “transformative bathroom experiences”—claims they’re only doing “defensive” work. Defensive. For the Pentagon. That’s like handing a gorilla a flamethrower and calling it “fire prevention assistance.” The only thing the Pentagon defends is their budget line and the right to turn sand into glass.

And you lusers out there still paying for ChatGPT Plus? Congratulations, you’re subsidizing the development of Skynet’s baby pictures. Every time you ask it to rewrite your shitty resume or generate pictures of cats wearing hats, you’re training the algorithms that will eventually determine whether you get a parking ticket or a Hellfire missile through your window for jaywalking near a “high-value target.”

Link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/01/openai-shares-more-details-about-its-agreement-with-the-pentagon/

Anecdote: Reminds me of the time a Major from the local base came demanding I set up “secure communications” for his unit. I set his terminal to require authentication via a CAPTCHA that only displayed when the coffee machine was brewing—a process controlled by a random number generator I wired into the building’s thermostat. He spent three days trying to log in while I enjoyed blissful silence. When he finally confronted me, I told him it was “military-grade obfuscation technology.” He promoted me to “civilian consultant” and I billed him for 400 hours of “thermal optimization analysis.” The bastards never learn.

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