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I asked Claude to translate URL links into footnotes for me to use for a paper. Claude actually invented some of the sources rather than use the provided URLs. It got dates wrong, failed to credit authors and, generally, required me to do as much work as I would have if I had just done the footnotes myself.
That’s happened twice now.
I think everyone here has their experience with AI, which ever platform, getting things wrong, providing information that it “thinks” we want to hear, or making things up.
That AI is utilized for targeting by the US military, will make a military that has committed egregious acts of violence and war crimes even more dangerous.
(If you doubt that characterization, please refer to Korea, Vietnam, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and, most especially, the air campaigns in Syria and Iraq against the Islamic State where US rules of engagement for its airstrikes caused roughly around the same level of civilian casualties as Russian airstrikes in Syria).
There supposedly is still some human control over AI in military use, but that period may be ending quickly.
The well-documented Israeli use of AI, such as the Lavender, Gospel and Where’s Daddy programs, the latter utilized to ensure that Palestine resistance members were killed WITH their families and neighbors, and not away from them, should be instructive, as to how AI processing and management can be applied to make killing, atrocity and genocide all the more efficient and rapid.
The evolution of robotic warfare in Ukraine and Russia should make all of us fearful of what will come in the next few years in terms of autonomous killing machines.
As of now, AI makes tremendous mistakes, as we all know from our own daily use. AI may have helped the US and Israel murder 168 school girls in Minab, Iran. However, we’ve also seen AI’s effectiveness in Gaza and Ukraine. Both AI’s incompetence and competence can co-exist, and, when coupled with the brutal and grotesque history of air warfare and an ill-planned war of choice, only more murdered school children are likely to come.