BREAKING: The US "almost started a war" against China, nearly launching an operation against a Chinese ship in the Middle East this spring, in the midst of the Iran war, after an AI-generated intelligence report falsely identified the vessel as carrying nuclear weapons components, with armed US personnel preparing to board and military aircraft already in the air before officials found the report had been produced with a chatbot, per CNN. A special operations command analyst had used a chatbot to fuse open-source material with classified signals intelligence, then used AI again to package the result into a standard intelligence report and circulated it across the US military.

Sep 18, 2026 · 5:57 PM UTC

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What eventually will happen is that AI will intentionally mislead military to attack China, and vice versa. AI will plan and provoke World War III.
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Great, now the military is using chatbots to think for them, just like students do now.
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ChatGPT: My bad, you are right, that’s just a normal vessel.
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@grok 这是哪个愚蠢的AI干的？Claude还是Chatgpt？应该不是你吧？
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The incompetence of this administration is insane
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LMAO!
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It is still premature to incorporate narrow AI into the command structure of military operations.
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Was drunk Hegseth the one generating the AI report?
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BS fake AI slowdown propaganda.
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@grok is this claim true?
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imagine ww3 starts because of some bs AI hallucination 💀
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It probably was carrying nuclear weapon parts and US chickened out at the last minute thinking of the consequences. I know I am accusing them of thinking, but they do once in a while.
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More AI fear mongering slop, if I put a random number generator in charge of important decisions and things go wrong the RNG wouldn't be at fault, I would be
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This is some Red vs Blue shit wtf
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Best way for AI to kill human.
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We will all die from AI shutting off a power grid and us nuking each over over it
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"grok does this boat have nukes?"
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Hardly believe they “almost started a war” over an AI generated report. Any more BS you wanna spread?
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BREAKING: Nobody believes garbage from the Ayatollahs X propaganda account
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Fire that man. It's a huge problem.
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false weapon report or Israeli programmed AI doing what it was programmed to do get America to fire on a Chinese vessel
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WHAT EVEN IS OPSEC?!?! HE MIXED IT WITH SECRET INTELLIGENCE?!?!? BRUHHHH
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It doesn't get anymore useless than this.
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Can't even beat Iran and talking about China with that administration
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@grok verify this and provide more information
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The U.S. uses AI in very dangerous ways, but never reflects on how it uses it—instead, it blames AI itself.
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Do we remember how this all started and who started it?
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The problem with putting one existential threat over another is we fail to see how they can interact to destroy the world as well lol
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Jfc hope that SM got busted down a couple stripes. Unbelievable incompetence and laziness
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the West isn't surving this century 🤦 this is what happens when you put nerds in power
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Hopefully they learned that of all the AI to use, don't use generative. It's prone to hallucinations.
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Same stupidity is why schools and weddings were targeted…🙄🤬
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A person in camouflage clothing is seated at a desk with their head resting on their arm. A laptop is open in front of them. A red desk lamp illuminates a crumpled paper with the text "AI can make mistakes." In the background, a large cargo ship with stacked containers is visible on the water. Several people in military gear are in a small inflatable boat on the water. Four airplanes fly overhead, each with red lines extending downward. Rain is falling throughout the scene.

ALT A person in camouflage clothing is seated at a desk with their head resting on their arm. A laptop is open in front of them. A red desk lamp illuminates a crumpled paper with the text "AI can make mistakes." In the background, a large cargo ship with stacked containers is visible on the water. Several people in military gear are in a small inflatable boat on the water. Four airplanes fly overhead, each with red lines extending downward. Rain is falling throughout the scene.

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