weren't the first instances of that.
you could argue that places like /r/combatfootage are the consumer 'tech' that leads some of this, but it wasn't 2022.
I argue that it’s different. Ukrainian military needed this to adapt to the warfare. The US has plenty of means to bomb people (look at Iran) with or without consumer drones. Our military does not have any native LLM capabilities.
Exactly as cyberpunk books predicted, the technology is so advanced that all you need to create a weapon is sold in a toy store.