“We Regret to Inform You That ‘GatGPT’ Is Exactly What It Sounds Like.” This from Futurism, a news site premised not on documenting our cultural movement toward a scarcely imaginable future, but on producing a nostalgia for our recent social-democratic past.
Defense Distributed and DEFCAD developed the WASP pistol entirely on GatGPT, which we now release for LEGIO members and by invitation. You can sign up here.
GatGPT is no longer about retraining unrestricted models. It is instead an agent harness and MCP armed with an extensive firearms development knowledge base. Leveraging the DEFCAD library, it has quick access to all of the live files, and can remix existing designs. Other current features:
- Describe it and GatGPT builds it. Watch in a 3D viewer as your agent works, manually editing or exporting at your convenience.
- Upload references, pictures, concept drawings, blueprints.
- Plan mode for complex work.
- Create BOMs, step-by-step instructions, and GD&T drawings/blueprints.
- Export files in printable formats.
- Hosted CAD sessions.
- Pro members can bring their own API keys, and connect it to their own Fusion and FreeCAD sessions on-device.
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WASP and ANT
The WASP is a sinister little thing. Through it I experience time out of joint. A perverse repetition of Liberator joined with these inhuman, insectoid inclusions from a more worrisome future. The grip is thoracic. It’s broken and xenolithic. It’s a tiny first monument to the loss of textual and geometric solidity AI now delivers even to the firearm.
But it makes good on one of our oldest theses at Defense Distributed. As predicted in Baudrillard, even guns have become fourth-order simulacra. GatGPT’s virtual guns and parts, which are already being published to Odysee, refer to no original industrial reality whatsoever.
“[Wilson] admits the goal here,” Justin Wagner, senior vice president for law and policy at Everytown, tells The Verge. “He wants to lower the barrier to entry so anyone… can design and manufacture weapons.” Justin, you’re so stuck in the 20th century. You labor under the subjective illusion of technology. As if the aim of all of this is still the extension of man and (political) power.
I want to lower Everytown for Gun Safety’s conceptual Defender’s Window. I want to lower the barrier to entry so low that, to take the Latourian view, the network of virtual objects has more agency in the equation than man himself.
The Ghost Guns have now entered our 21st century. We transcend Everytown-era gun control and intellectual property norms. There are no more designers or designer functions. The traumatic industrial past will have a permanent, objectively ironic way of using us to repeat itself— and for its own reasons.
Ghost Guns have become, to borrow from Derrida and Fisher, Hauntological.