Skynet’s backstory is somehow very predictable yet came as a surprise to me in the form of this headline by the Graudain: “Musk’s AI tool Grok will be integrated into Pentagon networks, Hegseth says”.

The article doesn’t provide much more other than exactly what you’d expect. E.g this Hegseth quote, emphasis mine: “make all appropriate data available across federated IT systems for AI exploitation, including mission systems across every service and component”.

Me as a kid: “how could they have been so incompetent and let Skynet take over?!”

Me now: “Oh. Yeah. That checks out”

Who needs clean towels when you can have a loaf of Marvin?

Keep loafin’, little dude.

Hugely believable. The place is running on skeleton crew who have to waste time catering to Musk’s ego whims.

I think he’s pretty willing for it to be his personal toy until it breaks down completely. It’s not like he needs to worry about being personally accountable, he can afford it.

I suspect when it does finally die though, he will miss the hourly hit of virtual cocksucking he gets from his fans. ChatGPT just doesn’t hit the same.