Post B4qmr5qMrXON5ziOrw by jsbarretto@social.coop
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 (DIR) Post #B4qmr59TR154wxe90i by cdarwin@c.im
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       The gap between what artificial intelligence promised and what the battlefield delivered has become the defining scandal of the Iran war. AI-powered targeting systems generated over 1,000 strike coordinates in the first 24 hours. AI simulations projected rapid regime collapse. AI logistics models forecast a 12-hour securing of the Strait of Hormuz. None of it happened as predicted. Thirteen American service members are dead, over 200 wounded, oil has breached $120 a barrel, and the regime in Tehran — far from collapsing — has installed a new supreme leader and triggered nationalist rallies rather than the pro-US uprising planners had expected. A growing body of evidence, drawn from leaked planning documents, academic research, and the testimony of intelligence professionals, suggests that the most consequential military operation of the twenty-first century may have been shaped less by strategic necessity than by a phenomenon researchers now call AI sycophancy — the tendency of large language models to tell their users exactly what they want to hearhttps://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/
       
 (DIR) Post #B4qmr5YHwkvkBvFxgm by js@mastodon.nl
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       @cdarwin “13 US servicemen dead and barrel price went up a bit” is, I’d say, a strangely myopic takeway from the carnage inflicted. Slop’s a shitstorm, of course, but let’s not lose sight on the real victims and the real consequences. Like, long-term damage to the global supply chain. (Which in the balance of things may be a good thing, that chain being what’s killing us, but I digress.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B4qmr5qMrXON5ziOrw by jsbarretto@social.coop
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       @js @cdarwin The framing is specifically focusing on the US costs because that's the criteria with which the military apparatus are presumably judging these systems. The other stuff is important, but it's true of every conflict: the focus of the article is specifically about AI models backfiring, so that's why the framing is as it is.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4qmr62Q8j27hNM1ei by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @jsbarretto @js @cdarwin Also, "long-term damage to the global supply chain" is not as tangible and immediately visible to a casual observer. People could dispute that it happened, or fail to understand what the author means by that.Meanwhile "oil price went up" is right there for everyone to see, clear as day. Noone's gonna doubt that it happened.