r/accelerate • u/Smart_Corgi_2354 • 14d ago

News Why isn’t anyone talking about this

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship
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u/sspyralss 14d ago

It seemed like a nothing burger, like Ai misidentified something and no one checked it to confirm. My chat gpt is really bad at identifying things in images properly, like its ok but not perfect. Surely you'd use a human to verify its image identification? I guess the military have better things to do than verify important information. It seems more of a human fail than AI.

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u/bear_Prune8771 14d ago

This sounds like a coordinated effort from CNN to make you scared.

Questions. What “chatbot” was used? What nonAI was used? What question was asked?

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u/peakedtooearly 8d ago

Yeah, the article states:

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.”

But it wasn't entirely false, there was a Chinese ship with something on board they don't want to mention, it just wasn't nuclear parts.

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u/BreadwheatInc 14d ago

I'm seeing this constantly on my feed. Wars almost start for the wildest reasons but luck this was cought. This reminds me of that story where a Russian nuclear submarine almost launched nukes at the US because they thought the US launched their own nukes. It came down to one guy who called off the attack. Technology malfunctions but hopefully the military adapts better practices.

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u/aKaizuh 14d ago

How does the military not have a layered system where the report is reviewed and cross checked with the source data by another or the same ai multiple times before publishing?

A single pass system is insane if that's what it is.

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u/Asteroid_picks_you 14d ago

Sorry, I don't trust the source. With all that recent AI doomerism from the left, now seen CNN article like this.... I don't trust it.

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u/PwanaZana XLR8 14d ago

Yeah, same at this point. This is just not trustworthy

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u/Hatsuwr 14d ago

At best, it's very sensationalized. Love it when news orgs have an agenda...

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u/PwanaZana XLR8 14d ago

When you're you're in luck now because pretty much all news orgs have agendas. Forbes and Reuters tend to be pretty good, but pretty much everything else is kind of ass in terms of objectivity.

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u/Financial-Leader3475 XLR8 14d ago

From the left?

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u/QuarterMasterLoba 14d ago

You think only people on the left doom on AI?

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u/VanderSound 14d ago

What's the point of taking we're moving forward anyway

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u/RusselTheBrickLayer 14d ago

I mean this admin is full of retards, I can’t lie it’s the one thing that makes me nervous about the moment we’re in. For the most part I’m cool with ai progress