Artificial Intelligence has enshittified the F-35, Americas long-embattled 5th generation stealth fighter jet.
The pitch was that ALIS would keep the F-35 in flying shape cheap and easy.
The reality has been the opposite.
An F-35 during an engine test class on July 15, 2024.© U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jose Miguel T. Tamondong
ALIS is the backbone of maintenance support for the F-35 aircraft.
The 382-page report is an in-depth indictment of the F-35 from the DoD itself.
Greg Williams over at POGO has gone through the report in-depth and pulled out themost scandalousand ridiculous bits.
Lockheed Martin pitched the AI system ALIS in a YouTube video seven years ago.
It compared the system to a cell phone.
The idea was that a central server would serve as an information and maintenance hub about the jets.
It hasnt gone well.
The DoD has been attempting to use software filters to screen ALISs nonsense, but it doesnt always work.
And every time theres a new piece of hardware or a software update, everything breaks again.
The problems with ALIS and the F-35 in general have been public for a long time.
In response, Lockheed is replacing ALIS with a system called the Operational Data Integrated connection (ODIN).
The F-35 has sucked for a long time.
Its got so many issues that it took the Pentagon 382 pages to elaborate on all of them.
ALIS is just one of them.
The Marineslost an F-35 in South Carolinalast year.
In 2021, one of the jetsshot itselfand caused $2.5 million in damage.
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