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German Bundeswehr Uses AI to Screen Applicants for Right-Wing Extremism

https://news.osna.fm/german-military-intelligence-uses-ai-to-screen-bundeswehr-applicants-for-right-wing-extremism/
24•AmazingTurtle•1h ago

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kakacik•55m ago
Hopefully not musk's grok
ta20240528•54m ago
Surely its just any postcode east of Berlin?
roschdal•53m ago
ai prompt: "as a application reviewer for Deutsches Bundeswehr, search and identify applicants who have been rejected from Austrian art-schools." (I am not right-wing extreme)
isodev•47m ago
I think that's a violation of the AI Act.
127•47m ago
Every force has an equal and opposite force. The more you push, the more push-back you will get.
wheels•46m ago
How extreme do you have to be to get in?
antiloper•43m ago
Obvious AI generated article without citing any sources.
cryptopian•37m ago
And no other osna.fm articles submitted to this site
bon0r•33m ago
seems legit https://derspiegel.substack.com/p/german-military-deploys-ai...

for context - Der Spiegel is one of the well respected publications in the region - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Spiegel

orig in DE - https://archive.is/kt3Aa

sammy2255•42m ago
Whos to say it's right or wrong? If I make a twitter profile impersonating a specific person and fill it with right-wing extremism will it get flagged by their process?
tesnorindian•42m ago
Curious to know which SOTA Frontier model did they use? Or an open weights model?
LawrenceKerr•42m ago
I guess left-wing extremism is okay? Like suppose you are a socialist, a nationalist and a socialist who wants to work for the Bundeswehr... that's perfectly fine then? (joking of course)
OKRainbowKid•9m ago
That's not very funny, and this reframing of nazis (national socialists) as left-wing because they have "socialist" in their name is an ongoing effort by right-wing populists and extremists.

It is hard to tell from your joke whether you also mean to propagate that narrative.

AmazingTurtle•29m ago
> If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

Interesting, why is this spam or off topic? This is absolutely an AI topic that needs to be discussed. Not off-topic. Moderation? Hello?

libertine•20m ago
The question could also be, is HN being targeted with bots, just like a Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook...
awongh•25m ago
Link to the actual article: https://archive.is/kt3Aa
nilslindemann•15m ago
Systemic racism within the German system has been proven [1], so the Bundeswehr is right to screen for it. I have experienced racists at work, at government offices and in everyday situations. A system consisting of such people does not properly work. We need some Goodwill.

[1]: to name one: https://fgz-risc.de/forschung/inra-studie

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