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.
Who the fuck names a program like that “Where’s Daddy?” that’s fucking sociopathic.
In this Information Age, more and more power is given to nerds. These people are known for many traits but for empathy or ethics, they are not.
I’m very much a nerd but not very empathetic. But that’s the autism.
As a nerd, I find that offensive. I’m quite empathetic!
And another day of “let’s shove all people of group X into one drawer and judge them”.
We have all this information available through the internet. Can research even the most difficult topics by some mere hits on a keyboard and a click. And yet, there are still so many idiots. This is really mind-boggling.
Israel
For them? This is tame.
If they designed the peogrm to be used to target people in their reaidentiak homes with their families, sociopaths is probably a good guess.
Really makes me wonder what the meaning behind Lavender is in this context. There could quite easily be some horrific intention behind using that specific word in correlation to this murder system.
Yes - it is sociopathic.
That’s not a coincidence.
Every sane country on earth: “We use modern tools to reduce civilian casualties (because civilian casualties are bad PR).”
Old-school countries: “We use modern tools without regard for civilian casualties (because what are they going to do about it? fight back? lmao)”
Israel and Russia: “We use modern tools to INCREASE civilian casualties!”
So you don’t blow up their entire family, right? 😟
Nope! And ‘susected Hamas militants’ are any male that changed addresses or changed phones ‘too often’.
Could have stopped at “male”.
……Oh shit I’m late for my colonics treatment
Really appreciating Israels SkyNet 100% speedrun here, some really impressive moves. However, I’m starting to wonder if this run passes the suspect test, I feel like you can’t get past regulators so well in most cases without an exploit.
Spoiler: step one was to remove the regulators
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.
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.
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?
I realize how delusional you are to think I said that, or even suggested it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
