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Seems we can chalk up a lot of the controversy in the last couple of months to non-human causes.<\/p>\n
\nThe officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations, said, for example, they were waiting for guidance on whether military \u201cfirsts\u201d count as history that can be restored. The first female Army Reserve graduate of Ranger School, Maj. Lisa Jaster, or the first female fighter pilot, Air Force Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, both had their stories deleted.<\/p>\n
Some officials said their understanding was it did not matter whether it was a historic first. If the first was based on what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth found to be a disqualifying characteristic, such as gender or race, it had to go, they said.<\/p>\n
\nOverall, tens of thousands of online posts that randomly mention dozens of key words, including \u201cgay,\u201d \u201cbias\u201d and \u201cfemale\u201d \u2014 have been deleted. Officials warn that the bulk of those images are gone for good.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nMy personal favorite has to be taking down photos of Paul Tibbet’s B-29 (the one that dropped the Hiroshima bomb) because it was named the “Enola Gay” after Tibbet’s mother.\u00a0 I believe there is no historical evidence that his mother was a lesbian, so perhaps a bit of an overreach was involved?<\/div>\n<\/div>\nBut we have all seen the other anecdotes – the deletion of the Tuskegee Airmen, for instance. (BTW, we are down to only ONE pilot extant – LTC George Hardy.)<\/div>\n<\/div>\nTurns out much of the explanation is simple. Not over-reaching orders on Hegseth’s part, not necessarily over-zealous Trump detractors trying to make the administration look bad (well, they could be part of the story but not the core) – it’s a lot simpler than that. The polar opposite of natural intelligence – artificial stupidity.<\/div>\n\n\nOfficials said the department relied in large part on a blind approach \u2014 using artificial intelligence computer commands to search for dozens of those key words in online department, military and command websites.<\/p>\n
If a story or photo depicted or included one of the terms, the computer program then added \u201cDEI\u201d into the web address of the content, which flagged it and led to its removal.\u00a0 AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
In contrast, the AI works poorly on social media like Facebook, Instagram, et al, so hand-culling is necessary. That’s when natural stupidity rears its ugly head. But the artificial variety caused by simplistic AI being used for a nuanced determination… looks like the human idiocy lies in the decision to USE the AI.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n