[dr_kiszonka]

I think you are pretty close. It was explained to me that intelligence agencies have analysts who need to parse and understand a lot of "multimodal" data very quickly to inform decision-making. Maybe the thinking is that LLMs could help with it? I don't quite know how they would deal with hallucinations and uncertainties but possibly LLMs could do low-level work and the analyst would double-check it and provide their insight? Let's call it "LLM-facilitated human-in-the-loop intelligence synthesis and augmentation" :)

Disclaimer: I don't work on LLMs or NLP and not for any agencies, so I am likely dead-wrong here.

[kridsdale1]

Take a look at what you can find about Google’s Project Nimbus. It’s my understanding from public info that this system is active in Israel today, and from day one of the war was doing multimodal analysis of the content posted online by Hamas to locate the hostages in some automated fashion.

[dr_kiszonka]

Found it — very interesting. Thanks for the pointer!

[justinclift]

> analyst would double-check it

Except sometimes they won't, and it'll turn out to be hallucinated info. :(

[kridsdale1]

We went to war in Iraq over hallucinated intel.

[justinclift]

Wasn't that "fabricated" (eg a mistake on purpose) rather than "hallucinated"?