We have witnessed recently many damning reports by several investigative journalists several big tech companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft having military contracts where their AI models are being used by certain state militaries around the globe.
The Threat
This is a very big and dangerous threat to humanity on a global scale and it is our duty as Devs to say No to weaponisation of AI.
We as Devs must work together to stop this madness before it goes out of hand. This is a huge threat to all humanity and must be stopped.
To understand the solution, we must understand the problem. Big tech companies leverage data they mined over decades on the internet either directly or indirectly to build their LLM models. Then, what they do is that they try to customize it in certain contexts to make it usable by military. However, this task does require probably a bit of effort on their end depending on the data collected. While their data scientists can filter out the ethical and moral constraint that might prevent AI from accepting prompts that are harmful or violent, they still need a lot of processing power to make the LLM suitable for military use.
The solution:
One way, how we as Devs can make it difficult for them to use LLMs for military use is to try to feed the internet as much as possible data is anti-war by publishing a massive number of texts all over the internet against war and against prompts that can be used for military.
This will make it near impossible with the current technology to use the LLMs for war.
Think of the LLM as a growing organism, we can manipulate it to prevent it from accepting or understanding certain content or even teach it to be against such content.
This might require a lot of help and resources to override the internet and make it difficult for companies to use LLMs for military.
> This is a call to action. If you are not scared enough, then you're probably sleeping. This is not about conflicts or wars, this is about humanity. We can't allow AI to be used for war.
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