[ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

[John Clark]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2026 at 4:47 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> The pentagon has a lot of money to buy technology and do it secretly.
> This is how Anthropic, OpenAI and Google become filthy rich.  *


*Baloney!  Your theory is so bad it's hard to know where to start. First of
all no government employee has a multi million dollar paycheck, not even
the president. And ALL the top minds in the field of AI are known and
accounted for, and they ALL work for AI companies, and NONE of them work
for the military. And to make a new cutting edge AI model you not only need
a gaggle of brilliant scientists with boiling water IQs, you also need tens
of billions of dollars worth of computing power to teach your AI, and if
the military was doing that there's no way in hell that could be kept
secret. *

*> We don’t know what technology the pentagon has,*


*NO! We know exactly what type of AI technology the military is using, and
it's no more advanced than the AI that you and I are able to use, possibly
even less so. The military is seldom at the cutting edge of technology, my
new iPhone is more advanced than any of the electronics in a F-22 fighter
jet. *

* John K Clark*






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> *>…What?! You believe that the Pentagon has access to a smarter AI than
> anything the AI companies have?? For that to be true it would mean that for
> the last several years hundreds of the very top AI researchers in the
> entire world have decided that they would rather be government employees
> and work for the military rather than work for Anthropic or OpenAI or
> Google and become filthy rich. And I don't believe there is a snowballs
> chance in hell of that has occurred, or will ever occur….*
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> *The pentagon has a lot of money to buy technology and do it secretly.
> This is how Anthropic, OpenAI and Google become filthy rich.  We don’t know
> what technology the pentagon has, by design.*
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> *When it comes to AI, the pentagon wants to strictly control what input is
> used to train it.  They could use the same technology that Anthropic and
> the others use, then send it to boot camp rather than Columbia University.
> The final product would be very different.*
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> *>…**By the way I'm curious if you agree with He Who Must Not Be Named
> that Anthropic is a "Radical Left AI company" run by "Leftwing nut jobs"
> because they don't think an AI conducting mass surveillance on the American
> people or an AI controlling a lethal weapon without a human being in the
> decision pipeline are good ideas. I suppose you do agree, I suppose you
> feel that it's your duty to agree with everything he does and says. I'd
> love it if you told me I'm wrong about that. *
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*John K Clark*

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