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Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Ritter Gets It Right - by Julian Macfarlane

 Ritter explains that the US is now using AIs for targeting in Iran and it makes mistakes. Technically, US/ Israeli strikes are supposed to be military targets only—according to both the US and Israel — not girls schools or hospitals or similar social infrastructure or non-combatants. I said ‘technically” because the Supreme Leader at home and his family were non-combatants.

A lot of innocents die in this war. Nobody explains why — except Scott and some others.

The culprit is not really the AIs being used but their users.

Some AI data is alway going to be dated or incorrect. yes, “dated”. Ritter says the girls’ school where 160 children died was once upon a time somehow associated with the IRGC. The IRGC is not just a military organization, it has many social programs, including health facilities and other community projects.

This is one of the problems with LLMs I have been trying to explain. They are not “intelligent” – they rely on datasets, abstractions of real-world information, which may be skewed or incomplete or false.


https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/ritter-gets-it-right?publication_id=837411&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=y7h5a&utm_medium=email