“Researchers”

I was told at a conference a few years ago that you could get US DOD funding for absolutely fucking anything so long as you were in CS and drew a tenuous link to a military application in the grant proposal.

I thought I believed them then but I never realised how far it went until today. Honestly respect to these researchers. I’d much rather this funding went to some academics fucking around with ChatGPT for 6 months than actually inventing exciting new ways to murder brown people.