Who will the Army call when it needs to assemble tech troops?
The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are
Just tabulation machines for a country’s population, nothing to see here.
No AI regulation for 10 years, and now 3 dystopian companies working together, directly embedded as a chain-of-command into the U.S. Army in an unprecedented action that historians will study for the future of humanity.
I wonder if countries will begin tightening regulations on companies like Meta, OpenAI, and Palantir - possibly even the entirety of the U.S.
This is movie-level dystopian
Remember all those political cartoons that portrayed corporate executives as being an actual piece of the government? Now, we don’t have to!
But I have to admit that seeing them in uniform makes it look like we’re sending these guys to the middle east to fight over oil.
Yes, nothing says gentle singularity like military contracts🙄, how does this not go against OpenAI mission statement?
There’s nothing more on brand than saying one thing while doing the opposite. Remember when they rolled out ID checks for some of their products while telling us in response to the NYT lawsuit that privacy is “at the core” of their products? Because what screams privacy more than invasive ID checking.
True, I did read some posts where people were saying to use their API they needed to do a face scan, I thought it was wild considering its a (private) service you pay for. I guess I was just expecting a company trying to erase the fears of dangerous AI to retain customers trust with blogs like “the gentle singularity”, not do a 360 and tell the public they are actually making “Terminator part 4” IRL.
It seems to be 100% mandatory if you fail some heuristic, which doesn’t happen that often, otherwise it’s only required for o3, o3-pro, reasoning summaries, and the new image generation.
I made a thread about it: OpenAI - We need to talk about org verification
The problem is, once a company gets big enough, it stops trying. Once you gain full dominance and saturate your market to where there’s no room to grow anymore, there’s no longer any need to appease anyone besides your investors. That’s when corners get cut, reputation becomes unimportant, and the focus shifts from rapid growth over to rapid profits.
Now that companies and enterprises have integrated OpenAI deeply within their code and average internet users are all reliant on - or even addicted to ChatGPT, there’s no chance that they’re losing their market share at this rate. As long as they roughly keep up with some direct competitors, they’re fine. So for us, it’s only downhill from here.
Remember, it’s unconstitutional for the Army to quarter AI troops inside your home. 
