As civilian casualties continue to mount in the wartorn Gaza Strip, reports of Israel’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) in its targeting of Hamas militants are facing increasing scrutiny. A report by the Israeli outlets +972 Magazine and Local Call earlier this month said that Israeli forces had relied heavily on two AI tools so far in the conflict — “Lavender” and “Where’s Daddy.”

While “Lavender” identifies suspected Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militants and their homes, “Where’s Daddy” tracks these targets and informs Israeli forces when they return home, per the report, which cites six Israeli intelligence officers who had used AI systems for operations in Gaza, including “Where’s Daddy?”

“We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” one of the officers told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations,” they added.

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    7 months ago

    So when anyone else kills civilians with air or drone strikes, it’s a bug, but when the IDF does it it’s a feature?

    And Hamas are content to sit back in their Saudi and Egyptian hotels and reject ceasefire deals while their people in Gaza are shot and bombed and burned and tortured and generally murdered to death. Fucking disgusting, all around. Nobody comes out of this clean.

    • misspacific@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      but when the IDF does it it’s a feature?

      it’s a genocide; that’s the point.

      Nobody comes out of this clean.

      it’s a genocide; it’s not rational.

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          Couldn’t you use that same claim to say that multiple known genocides weren’t because the populations are higher now? Heck, I see morons use the same argument to claim China isn’t committing genocide because the Uighur population is higher now.

          The fallacious “but the population is higher” argument is an idiotic attempt to whitewash genocide.

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          Removed for genocide denial.

          Article 2 of the UN’s Genocide Convention defines it like this:

          https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

          "Article II

          In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

          a) Killing members of the group;

          b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

          c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

          d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

          e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

          Note: “Any of the following acts”. Israel is now 5 for 5.

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            They’re going after Hamas and there’s been collateral damage, such happens in every war. If they wanted to commit genocide, why wouldn’t they just carpet bomb the place instead of sending in leaflets to warn people to leave and even risk the lives of their own troops? By your definition, Hamas is also committing genocide against the Israelis.

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      7 months ago

      No, IDF and Israeli government are trash terrorists that have occupied apartheid Gaza and West Bank for more than half a century.

      Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister funded Hamas.

      If you support Netanyahu IDF or Israeli government at this point you are a maniac.

      The world knows this.

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        7 months ago

        So it’s THEIR fault that Hamas came in and murdered, tortured, mutilated, and raped innocents families on October 7th? Seriously? You realize how insane that sounds?

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            7 months ago

            Resorting to insults never makes your position a good one, friend. Give me some evidence please that the Israeli government would finance a terrorist group bent on killing Jews. They literally have this in their founding documents.