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by letmevoteplease 88 days ago
This reads like an AI-generated hit piece on AI. "According to Bloomberg, CNN, and the Soufan Center, AI simulations run before February 28 produced projections of overwhelming success for a decapitation strike against Tehran." - can anyone find anything like this in Bloomberg, CNN, or the Soufan Center? I tried and could not. Seems like fiction inspired by the known fact that Claude was used for targetting and so on.
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decimalenough 88 days ago
Nope, they're referring to actual reporting:

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/us-israel-iran-war-2026/car...

https://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2026-march-3/

However, while these sources mention the use of AI for battlefield simulations, I'm not seeing any specific mention of the results of those simulations, and the Soufan article even spells out that "details on how exactly Claude was used for operational planning, battlefield simulations, and intelligence assessments are not made public".

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letmevoteplease 88 days ago
Yes. I really think this piece is an AI-generated hallucination. Look at the table of "AI Predictions vs. Operational Reality" for example; that's classic ChatGPT style. An interesting irony.
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