From a9de4cc983d12e33fef6e9e5d2b939b0f84ab38f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vleermuis-admin Date: Sat, 23 May 2026 12:20:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] really drive home the ethical issues in the no ai request template (#776) content warning: the file change here contains mention of genocide, murder (especially child murder). Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/pulls/776 --- NO_AI_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/NO_AI_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md b/NO_AI_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md index 90e56d2..e58eb9a 100644 --- a/NO_AI_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md +++ b/NO_AI_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md @@ -61,6 +61,21 @@ This has resulted in pricing historically marginalized individuals, who are more A lot of AI companies also work directly with nation states for use in their War Departments, which in turn leads to further AI usage during war and invasions. This is coupled with [NYT: Palantir, Anthropic and small start-ups are generating rewards from their investments in defense tech](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/technology/silicon-valley-war-defense-tech.html). +As another example [NPR: OpenAI announced Pentagon deal after Trump banned Anthropic](https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic-pentagon-openai-ai-weapons-ban) which was due to the USA Department of War [launching an AI acceleration strategy](https://web.archive.org/web/20260113071131/https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4376420/war-department-launches-ai-acceleration-strategy-to-secure-american-military-ai/). + +Due to the nature of LLMs being only kind of as good as the data they are trained on, this can lead to additional civilian deaths and housing/infrastructure damage either intensionally or not. Examples: + +
+ Content Warning: War details, death + + - [Gaza: UN experts deplore use of purported AI to commit ‘domicide’ in Gaza, call for reparative approach to rebuilding](https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/04/gaza-un-experts-deplore-use-purported-ai-commit-domicide-gaza-call) + - [Lavender & Where’s Daddy: How Israel Used AI to Form Kill Lists & Bomb Palestinians in Their Homes](https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/israel_ai) + - [Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war](https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-israel-military-gaza-hamas-artificial-intelligence-20b2adb438b39ee9cb6eb2f52c1ae44a) + - [Google has dropped its promise not to use AI for weapons](https://theconversation.com/google-has-dropped-its-promise-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-its-part-of-a-troubling-trend-249169) + - ["We want to use it for everything": How Project Maven became central to America’s AI-powered warfare](https://web.archive.org/web/20260312035736/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/project-maven-ai-us-airstrike-iraq-anthropic-b2929138.html) + +
+ ## What You Can Do I'd like to kindly suggest implementing a strict "No AI" policy. This can also help with what seems to be larger and larger influxes of low quality drive-by PRs by AI agents.