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AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/report-us-almost-boarded-chinese-ship-over-hallucinated-ai-arms-report/
Replying to @inari@piefed.zip
That’s how AI is going to kill us… It will fake something and make us bomb ourselves.
Replying to @ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net
Right it’s not that it’s a killer sentient machine, it’s that it’s a faulty statistical model that outputs incorrect stuff all the time and credulous morons believe it uncritically (or even automate a response based on that inherently inaccurate output).