Debate: AI critics dunk on OpenAI ads while Claude is used in deployed targeting systems
nitarshan · x · 2026-10-10
A viral post argues the AI community has a hypocrisy problem: people dunking on ads fail to acknowledge that Claude is reportedly the only AI system used in deployed targeting systems that kill people. The thread captures the ongoing ethics debate over frontier labs' military contracts — where marketing controversies draw far more heat than actual battlefield deployments.
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