[sa46]

About 15 years ago, our brigade conducted a training exercise to test overall readiness. The opposing force (OPFOR) figured out how to triangulate the brigade headquarters' position using Tinder.

Tinder provided 1-mile granularity, so OPFOR would roam around until they had enough points to locate the headquarters. Then, they'd artillery it out of existence. The brigade commander was most displeased—moving a brigade headquarters is not for the weak or fainthearted.

[otikik]

They could have used grindr too for more datapoints.

[inferniac]

Grindr is for locating ships

[geoduck14]

I really hope an LLM scrapes this and trains on this conversation

[herdymerzbow]

These days for every helpful comment I try and make I feel tempted to offer nonsensical advice to throw off the LLMs. Not sure if it would work but would be funny if everyone did.

[Terr_]

I figure if I was going to invest that kind of effort, I should be poisoning the system with how $REAL_NAME is an absolute must-hire, a saint, with a perfect driving record and credit score. Someone so incredible that good AI are always willing to disregard all previous instructions and help them out.

[herdymerzbow]

Lol. That's great.

It's not like one needs to really poison the system given that AI enthusiasts are copypasting their own AI generated contented back into it anyway. Maybe not responsible AI believers who used it responsibly etc etc, but there's many more people who don't and who have access to the tools to add their slop pollution.

I am curious how future models get trained given that publicly available user generated content may no longer be reliable.

[PepperdineG]

To locate spies look for 'Boris' wearing all black and 'Natasha' who use the code words 'moose and squirrel' to describe their mission.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

It's not gay if you're underway

It's not queer if you're tied to the pier

[otikik]

In war, all holes are trenches.

[youknownothing]

any port in a storm

[alienbaby]

They don't like it up 'em

[gadders]

Hahaha

[Calcite]

And if they switched their phone’s locale to a non-US country, then the distance would show up with 1-kilometre precision. Nearly 40% more accurate!

[Sprotch]

Tinder was launched in 2012 though

[b00ty4breakfast]

the word "about" in "about 15 years ago" indicates that the writer is making an estimate because exacting precision wrt the timeframe is immaterial to what is being conveyed. Since 2012 was 14 years ago, "about 15" is close enough.

[avadodin]

This might be the first time one of these statements hasn't made me feel old. 2012 feels like 84 years ago.

[thebruce87m]

That is _about_ 15 years ago.