Original title: The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin
Summary: The US military is testing five LLMs as part of an eight-week exercise run by the Pentagon’s digital and AI office. “It was highly successful. It was very fast,” a US Air Force colonel is quoted as saying. “We did it with secret-level data,” he adds, saying that it could be deployed by the military in the very near term.
Honestly, I was freaked out when I read that “secret-level data” in the article, but it’s probably a choice between (a) giving an officially approved LLM for people to use, that’s set up in a way where it’s safe to feed secret-level data into it, or (b) having people fire up ChatGPT and put the secret-level data into it. There have already been issues of employees pasting proprietary code into ChatGPT and doubtless that’ll happen with military data try or not to prevent it.
Inevitable, but still scary AF.