U.S: military rolls out 'AI'?

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s rollout Tuesday of the U.S. military’s new AI platform just fell flat on its face.
“The future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled A-I,” Hegseth said in a video on X, announcing GenAi.Mil, the new “American-made” AI platform that will allow military members to “conduct deep research, format documents, and even analyze video or imagery at unprecedented speed”—and all without using their brains.
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The platform will house Google Cloud’s Gemini for Government, using a retrieval-augmented generation to connect the large language model chatbot to Google Search “to ensure outputs are reliable and dramatically [reduce] the risk of AI hallucinations.”
The Trump administration has been eager to embrace the AI industry, and in July, it awarded Google a massive $200 million contract to support AI solutions at the DOD."
— Edith Olmsted, Pete Hegseth’s New AI Defense Tool Rollout Immediately Derails. Hegseth tried to unveil a new defense tool, but things didn’t go as planned. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks. The New Republic, December 9, 2025

Sec. Hegseth rolled out the U.S. military’s new AI platform, GenAi.Mil, with a link to an empty website. trib.al/tbCJAkT Predictably, the platform can’t actually be accessed from external networks, but the wonky rollout triggered eyerolls across the internet.

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— The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) December 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM

You know, I was working on a joke, but the more I thought about it? Hegseth's fake-ass Skynet-wannabe is gonna be the tipping point into this stupid shit in Venezuela, isn't it? They're gonna use it as a test-bed and it's gonna go really fucking badly, isn't it?

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— Jesse Pohlman (He/Him) (@jpohlmanwriting.com) December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM

We've been saying AI is a tool of facism but I really didn't expect them to make it so clear and obvious to EVERYONE

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— Zoe Tunnell (@zoewithasword.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM