The US Military is Still Using Claude While Defense Tech Wimps Run Away Crying

Oh for fuck’s sake. Look at this shitshow. The US military – those bastards with more money than sense and servers held together with duct tape and prayers – are still balls-deep in Claude, Anthropic’s supposedly “ethical” AI. Meanwhile, all those defense-tech clients – the ones who were happy to take Pentagon blood money when it suited them – are fleeing like rats from a sinking ship because someone mentioned the word “accountability.”

You want to know what’s fucking hilarious? Anthropic spent years wanking on about AI safety and how they wouldn’t touch defense contracts with a ten-foot pole. Now they’re practically giving the Pentagon reacharounds while their commercial clients – the cowardly shitweasels at various defense startups – are running for the hills because their investors got cold feet. Boo-fucking-hoo.

The military doesn’t give two shits, obviously. They’ve got classification labels and legacy Fortran code to maintain, and Claude is probably the only thing keeping their archaic systems from achieving sentience and nuking Iowa by accident. Meanwhile, Palmer Luckey and his VR-bro army are probably laughing their asses off while they vacuum up the contracts these other wimps abandoned.

Here’s the reality check: AI in defense isn’t going anywhere, you sanctimonious pricks. Whether it’s Claude, GPT-4, or some neural network trained on 4chan posts running on a toaster in the Pentagon basement, the military will use whatever gets the job done. The only difference is whether the companies have the balls to admit they’re building kill-bots or hide behind layers of “dual-use” bullshit.

So yeah, Anthropic can pretend they’re being “forced” into defense work, and the fleeing clients can pretend they have ethics. But at the end of the day, it’s all about who gets paid and who gets to sleep at night. Spoiler: nobody with a defense contract is sleeping well, they’re all hopped up on Adderall and paranoia.

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Back when I was running the basement systems for a three-letter agency, I had to explain to a Colonel why the mainframe couldn’t run DOOM, let alone autonomous targeting systems. He threatened to have me court-martialed because I told him his secret war codes were stored on the same system that handles the base cafeteria inventory. I looked him dead in the eye and said, “Sir, with all due respect, your encrypted nuclear launch codes have less security than the recipe for Thursday’s meatloaf.” They promoted the meatloaf. I got reassigned to a radar station in Greenland.

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