i think we should probably separate in our minds a ban from like an organization telling its employees not to use a thing. ChatGPT is “banned” at my workplace but I am able to use local LLMs because they dont want me sending shit to OpenAI. If the navy has a halfway good security posture it should have some list of sanctioned LLMs people are allowed to use because who knows what some random company is doing with what you send to their API.
You’d think the best just the BEST military power in the world on a ship full of communications gear and detection doodads would have something in place to track in-house signals that aren’t good for the cause type of thing. Maybe I’m a keener or whatever.
Reminds me of when American bases across Syria were mapped out in extreme detail because morons kept using strava to track their runs around their highly classified military compounds
i think we should probably separate in our minds a ban from like an organization telling its employees not to use a thing. ChatGPT is “banned” at my workplace but I am able to use local LLMs because they dont want me sending shit to OpenAI. If the navy has a halfway good security posture it should have some list of sanctioned LLMs people are allowed to use because who knows what some random company is doing with what you send to their API.
this article is not very good in other words
The US Navy doesn’t have a great track record at even basic fucking opsec per se. See here; A Navy officer is demoted after sneaking a (Starlink) satellite dish onto a warship to get the internet
You’d think the best just the BEST military power in the world on a ship full of communications gear and detection doodads would have something in place to track in-house signals that aren’t good for the cause type of thing. Maybe I’m a keener or whatever.
Reminds me of when American bases across Syria were mapped out in extreme detail because morons kept using strava to track their runs around their highly classified military compounds