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In the last few hours there has been a massive drone attack on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet. Apparently drone swarms were smuggled into Russia in cargo trucks and released a short distance from the airfields. Some of the bases attacks are more than 4,500 kilometers away from the Ukrainian border. The Ukrainian MOD claims that 34 percent of Russias’s strategic air force has been destroyed. This is an unconfirmed number, but there are multiple videos of groups of 4-7 TU-95 bombers burning on their airfields.
The drones were autonomous, their machine vision trained on the museum airplanes Ukraine had. A sufficiently motivated non-state actor could pull off an attack like this on any air force base, like Whiteman, for example.
Fuck. Forget LLMs, if this develops further (and I see little reason why it shouldn't), there is a very real risk war and terror becomes generally commodified and ubiquitous.
I've seen videos of the boston dynamics dog walking the streets and dropping N-bombs. That's just a short hop away from strapping a gun and a raspi on that thing. Running a very rudimentary NN scanning for skin color.
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