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YOLO creator Joseph Redmon sparks debate after highlighting the prominent presence of military drone contractors at CVPR

He shared photos of a Quantum Systems military drone display.

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Joseph Redmon@pjreddie#1495inAI

CVPR has reached its final form, a convention for weapons manufacturers

2:16 PM · Jun 6, 2026 · 2.5K Views
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Positive users approve of the military drone firm exhibiting AI products at CVPR while negative users sarcastically criticize the pivot from helpful uses like agriculture to building bombs.

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Florian Brand@xeophon

@pjreddie what happened to being subtle about those things

Joseph Redmon@pjreddie

CVPR has reached its final form, a convention for weapons manufacturers

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Lukas Die Kunst@LukasForTech

@pjreddie The Reliant has some clever endurance solutions. Hard to ignore the defense footprint at CVPR though.

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uɐɥdǝʇS@StephanSturges

@pjreddie it appears technology may be a double edged thingy

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Joseph Redmon@pjreddie

@LukasForTech Their trajectory is that of like 70% of AI companies, we’ll try to help people with something like agriculture… 2 years later lol nvm lets build bombs

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