Mia Khalifa Shades OpenAI's $200 Million Pentagon Deal with One Brutal Tweet: 'Yes, I Do Think I'm Better Than You'
Mia Khalifa has entered the chat and is not the one powered by ChatGPT.
The former adult film star turned cultural commentator and internet icon took a moment to eviscerate tech bros, defense contracts, and the entire Silicon Valley to Pentagon pipeline with a single, sharp-edged tweet in response to OpenAI's newest bag: a $200 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense.
'the military just bought chatgpt btw. yes, I do think I'm better than you for having never used it,' Khalifa tweeted on Monday, instantly turning AI ethics discourse into performance art.
And honestly? She's not wrong. Let's talk about what just happened and why Miss Mia said what she said.
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense casually announced that it had entered into a $200 million agreement with OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, to build and prototype 'the most advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies' for military use. So basically, they're turning your favorite essay-writing bot into a weapon of war and bureaucracy.
According to The Telegraph, the contract outlines a plan to develop AI systems for 'critical national security challenges,' both on the battlefield and in admin offices. You know, just casually automating imperialism and paperwork at the same time.
The work will reportedly take place in and around Washington, D.C., which is fitting because where better to cook up dystopian tech than in the same city that legalized drone strikes and decided Flint's water wasn't an emergency?
The projected end date for the contract is July 2026, so you've got two years to start stockpiling canned goods and learning how to speak in algorithmic prompts if you want to stay employed or alive.
OpenAI isn't exactly struggling to pay the bills. Just last week, the company flexed that its annual revenue growth rate has soared to $10 billion, proving once again that when the world's on fire, the people who sell you matches are the ones cashing in.
They dropped the bombshell that they're aiming to raise up to $40 billion in a new investment round led by none other than SoftBank. This would slap a $300 billion valuation on OpenAI's forehead faster than the Pentagon can say 'national security threat.'
Also, just so we're all on the same page, ChatGPT reached 500 million weekly active users by the end of March. That's half a billion people feeding their thoughts, emotions, and Google Doc ideas into the machine. Somewhere, a defense contractor is salivating.
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