Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the rollout of GenAI.mil today in a video posted to X. To hear Hegseth tell it, the website is “the future of American warfare.” In practice, based on what we know so far from press releases and Hegseth’s posturing, GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data.
Hegseth’s announcement was full of bold pronouncements about the future of killing people. These kinds of pronouncements are typical of the second Trump administration which has said it believes the rush to “win” AI is an existential threat on par with the invention of nuclear weapons during World War II.
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They were largely incompetent but they were ideological.
None of these fascist-wannabes have a shred of conviction in them, they have no actual beliefs. When was the last time you heard any of them deliver an impassioned speech that wasn’t utterly awkward and stilted and oozing with corporate callouts and pandering nonsense.
Yes, it deliver the same rotten outcomes, people still eat it up, it just feels weird losing so much social ground to a group who managed to con a third of the country’s population with the same level of enthusiasm and fervor as AOL roleplay teens trying to be edgy.
This is actually it, the point I was trying to make. I couldn’t really put my finger on it yesterday, but yes, this is it.
At least they start of for something. It was a fucked up thing, it was wrong, it was horrible, but at least it was something. At least they made it look impressive and great. This group of fat losers don’t even have that going for them.
“Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it’s an ethos.” - Walter, not wrong just an asshole