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What's a good use case for a defense contractor to generate AI images besides to include in presentations?
by samtp 1y ago
What's a good use case for a defense contractor to generate AI images besides to include in presentations?
- aigen000 1y agoFabricating evidence of weapons of mass destruction in some developing nation. I kid, more real world use cases would be for concept images for a new product or marketing campaigns.
- ZeroTalent 1y agoManufacturing consent
- rnd0 1y agoLiterally how it will be used; you are correct.
- matheusmoreira 1y agoReality is turning into some kind of Hideo Kojima game. https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY
- kla-s 1y agoWow that video is awesome, thanks for sharing
- Gud 1y agoWow! What an amazingly dystopian vision of the future. Probably right.
- ZeroTalent 1y agoit's a deepfake. it's not actually from the game MGS2. this is the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C31XYgr8gp0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C31XYgr8gp0
- Gud 1y agoMakes perfect sense.
- subroutine 1y agoThink of all the trivial ways an image generator could be used in business, and there is likely a similar use-case among the DoD and its contractors (e.g. create a cartoon image of a ship for a naval training aid; make a data dashboard wireframe concept for a decision aid).
- sandspar 1y agoVastly oversimplified but for every civilian job there's an equivalent military job. Superficially, the military is basically a country-sized self-contained corporation. Anywhere that Wal-Mart's corporate office could use AI so could the military.
- golergka 1y agoInput one image of a known military installation and one civilian building. Prompt to generate a similar _civilian_ building, but resembling that military installation in some way: similar structure, similar colors, similar lighting. Then include this image in a dataset of another net with marker "civilian". Train that new neural net better so that it does lower false positive rate when asked "is this target military".
- aprilthird2021 1y agoYou'll never get promoted thinking like that! Mark them all "military", munitions sales will soar!
- golergka 1y agoBombs and other kinds of weapon system which are "smarter" have higher markup. It's profitable to sell smarter weapons. Dumb weapons is destroying the whole cities, like Russia did in Ukraine. Smart weapons is striking a tank, a car, an apartment, a bunker, knowing who's there and when — which obviously means less % of civilian casualties.
- guappa 1y agoRemember when Obama re-defined so that "all adult males are terrorists"? That's how USA reduces civilian casualties.
- derektank 1y agoYou might not believe it but the US military actually places a premium on not committing war crimes. Every service member, or at least every airman in the Air Force (I can't speak for other branches) receives mandatory training on the Kunduz hospital before deployment in an effort to prevent another similar tragedy. If they didn't care, they wouldn't waste thousands of man-hours on it.
- handfuloflight 1y ago
- potatoman22 1y agoGenerating or augmenting data to train computer vision algorithms. I think a lot of defense problems have messy or low data
- tzury 1y agoAI image generation is a "statistical simulator". And when fed with the right information, it can generates pretty close to reality scenery.
- missedthecue 1y agoGenerating 30,000 unique images of artillery pieces hiding in underbrush to train autonomous drone cameras.
- junon 1y agoIt's probably not that, but who knows. The real answer is probably way, way more mundane - generating images for marketing, etc.
- TechDebtDevin 1y agowell considering an element of their access is the lifting of safety guardrails, I'd assume the scope includes, to some degree, the processing or generation of nsfw/questionable content
- m4rtink 1y agoNever underestimate the military PowerPoint[1] industry! [1] https://media.wired.com/photos/5933e578714b881cb296c6ef/master/w_5066,h_3299,c_limit/atl_wall_chart.jpg https://media.wired.com/photos/5933e578714b881cb296c6ef/mast...
- cortesoft 1y agoIf the model can generate the images, can't it already recognize them?
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- aprilthird2021 1y agoGenerating pictures of "bad guy looking guys" so your automated bombs shoot more so you sell more bombs
- cuuupid 1y agoThe very simple use case is generating mock targets. In movies they make it seem like they use mannequin style targets or traditional concentric circles but those are infeasible and unrealistic respectively. There's an entire modeling industry here and being able to replace that with infinitely diverse AI-generated targets is valuable!
- tyingq 1y agoTraining, recruiting, sales (as you mention), testing image based targeting.
- maxglute 1y agomilitary famously bad at powerpoint meme