> With all possible respect to OP, I find this all very hard to believe without additional evidence. If nothing else, I don't really see a military application of this API (specifically, not AI in general). I'm sure it would help them create slide decks and such, but you don't need extra special zero moderation for that.

I can't provide additional evidence (it's defense, duh), but the #1 use I've seen is generating images for computer vision training mostly to feed GOFAI algorithms that have already been validated for target acquisition. Image gen algorithms have a pretty good idea of what a T72 tank and different camouflage looks like, and they're much better at generating unique photos combining the two. It's actually a great use of the technology because hallucinations help improve the training data (i.e. the final targetting should be invariant to a T72 tank with a machine gun on the wrong side or with too many turrets, etc.)

That said, due to compartmentalization, I don't know the extent to which image gen is used in defense, just my little sliver of it.

We can talk about it here, they put out SBIRs for satellite imagery labeling and test set evaluation that provide a good amount of detail into how they're using it.