alt Hacker NewsThey'll probably try, but the problem is everyone actually using these models knows Grok sucks: [0].
> Demand from other agencies to use Grok has been anemic, people familiar with the matter said, except in a few cases where people wanted to use it to mimic a bad actor for defensive testing.
[0]: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/elon-musk-xai...?
Replies
The function of fully autonomous AI weaponry is to offload the responsibility for making kill decisions away from the soldier.
Whether the model works accurately or inaccurately doesn’t matter. In some ways, having a trigger-happy model may serve the US military’s interests better than a discerning one.
All American institutions are hemorrhaging talent and knowledge, their foundations intentionally being rotted out. The kleptocrats running the departments and military don't care if we are competent or if their job is done - because their real job is to steal every last drop of wealth they can.
So this whole thing screams of a charade to give Elon Musk more of our hard-earned money as a favor from Trump.
February 23, 2026: The Pentagon confirmed a new agreement allowing Grok use in classified systems. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced it would go live soon on unclassified and classified networks, alongside other models, as part of feeding military data into AI.
Elon mentioned they will be releasing a cli coding tool for grok similar to Claude Code, will be interesting to see how it performs given they have their own datacenter (largest in the world and building another larger one)