According to the officials who spoke to Bloomberg, some personnel inside U.S. Central Command leaned too hard on [Palantir] to accelerate intelligence analysis and decision-making. The Defense Department has reportedly made the software tool a cornerstone of military operations over the past year… Officials said some users expected Maven to flag stale records or contradictions in the intelligence assembled for potential targets, though it is not clear why they thought the system would do that. The Minab [elementary school massacre] site, which was cataloged as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility due to outdated data, was fed into Maven with other candidates and came out as a recommended day-one target. Target-list work that once took hours was condensed into minutes.
A Palantir spokesperson told Bloomberg the company “is not responsible for the underlying data nor identifying intelligence deficiencies” and that there is no evidence its software was at fault. Two people familiar with Palantir’s Pentagon contracts said the government keeps primary responsibility for the quality of the information that’s fed into Maven.
Yes. The only newsworthy thing about this is that the administration is sufficiently embarassed that it’s throwing AI under the bus. Nobody in the rest of the world is buying this cover story. The US is a terror regime that deliberately tortures and murders civilians.
Gonna be really fvcking awful hearing about what went on at the concentration camps in a few years.
Yeah we’re already hearing about people being put in phone booth sized cages. I wonder if the administration will continue to block access after the mid terms.