It’s not like their position is better if AI wasn’t used.
“Nope, no AI here, just us bombing that building that happened to hold a bunch of children and now holds bodies torn to shreds.”
Maybe they look less stupid and more evil, more intentionally war criminals? Is that the look they’re going for?
Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school