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deminks

(11,542 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 03:09 PM 8 hrs ago

DOD may have just admitted it used GROK AI to target girl's school in Iran.

Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

Asha Rangappa (@asharangappa.bsky.social) 2026-06-20T18:22:32.193Z


Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/.

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Garbage in...garbage out. Grok has learned to murder. But, he's a trillionaire, so...
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DOD may have just admitted it used GROK AI to target girl's school in Iran. (Original Post) deminks 8 hrs ago OP
I think there's typo in your title. yellow dahlia 8 hrs ago #1
Yes, corrected. deminks 8 hrs ago #3
Is the x in xAI, Elon Musk's X? Baitball Blogger 8 hrs ago #2
Yes, and yes. nt. deminks 6 hrs ago #6
At some point in the chain of decisions, orthoclad 7 hrs ago #4
AI still have a lot of glitches...................... Lovie777 7 hrs ago #5

orthoclad

(4,975 posts)
4. At some point in the chain of decisions,
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 04:04 PM
7 hrs ago

a human or humans is/are responsible. We must not let them diffuse responsibilty onto machines or bureaucratic fog. Let the guilty bear the full weight of culpability.

If the US won't enforce simple justice, then the world should step in. It's time for the global community to come out from under the superpower cloud.

I am against capital punishment, but I would not oppose an adjudicated death penalty in this horrendous case of mass child murder. Both for the human agent and the machine agent. Pull the plug.

Lovie777

(24,358 posts)
5. AI still have a lot of glitches......................
Sat Jun 20, 2026, 04:16 PM
7 hrs ago

plus let us not forget who programmed it - RWers.

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