[chacham15]

> According to the documents, the AI services that the Defense Ministry purchased from Microsoft include translation (about half of the average monthly consumption during the first year of the war), OpenAI’s GPT-4 model (about a quarter of the consumption), a speech-to-text conversion tool, and an automatic document analysis tool.

> The leaked documents show that the Israeli military’s average monthly use of Azure’s cloud storage facilities in the first six months of the war was 60 percent higher than in the four months leading up to it.

This is the actual data in the article, the rest is a bunch of speculation around these pieces of data. They note that GPT-4 may have been used in air gapped systems which would make it impossible to know how it was used, but it would be interesting to have more detail here.

I also find it interesting that the largest usage of services is actually in translation more than anything else.

[myrmidon]

There is another data point: That OpenAI removed limitations against "military and warfare" use.

This is both concerning and quite unsurprising to me...