‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets (www.theguardian.com)
from boem@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 16:30
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caoimhinr@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 16:56 next collapse

The AI in question: targets.forEach(target => target.isHamas = true);

mannycalavera@feddit.uk on 03 Apr 2024 19:45 next collapse

ClassCastException: Cannot cast null to Boolean

Beep boop beep. Wirrrr. Targeting backup test data due to failure in main subroutine. Target acquired.

targets.add(civilians).add(aid workers).add(journalists)

Brrr beeep boop bop

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 23:52 next collapse

Wasn’t JavaScript evil enough?

[deleted] on 05 Apr 2024 17:14 collapse

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qooqie@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 17:06 next collapse

Human life dictated by a machine on who to kill. You need to be so fucking cold and evil to be okay with this.

Not only is it heinous it’s also obvious this is just a testing ground for it. Think about it, a testing ground that the test is how many you can kill using AI. We need an amendment to the Geneva convention

mindlight@lemm.ee on 03 Apr 2024 17:15 next collapse

Even if you got US and Israel to sign it, Russia, China and The Saudis would never.

mannycalavera@feddit.uk on 03 Apr 2024 19:42 collapse

Who do you think is selling this capability to Israel? Hint: it’s not the Saudis.

mindlight@lemm.ee on 03 Apr 2024 20:24 collapse

I actually have no idea who sold what in this case and it’s actually not even remotely relevant since the discussion was about updating the Geneva convention and who wouldn’t sign.

However, you seem to imply that Israel lacks the knowledge and resources to create the Lavender system themselves. Intriguing! Please elaborate with some links supporting your claims.

mannycalavera@feddit.uk on 04 Apr 2024 02:46 collapse

Nah mate, I’m quietly suggesting that the US arms Israel to the teeth to preserve US interests, influence, and economic strength. They ain’t going to do anything that rocks that boat.

nutt_goblin@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 01:07 collapse
Cryan24@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 17:25 next collapse

So they built skynet?

DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 19:08 next collapse

Sounds more like Project Insight to me

TimeSquirrel@kbin.social on 03 Apr 2024 19:31 collapse

Don't disrespect Skynet by comparing it with our trash pattern-storing-and-matching "AI". It figured out time travel all on it's own after all.

SkyezOpen@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 17:56 next collapse

Ai is trained on input data, and if their input data is on past idf strikes then it’s no fucking wonder they’ve killed so many journalists.

cybersandwich@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 19:38 next collapse

this probably wasn’t supposed to be funny but holy shit lol

Jimmycakes@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 03:54 collapse

Input data was literally just a map of Gaza

Melkath@kbin.social on 03 Apr 2024 18:33 next collapse

The AI was just RNG applied to a census.

Isoprenoid@programming.dev on 03 Apr 2024 18:38 next collapse

It looks like they tried “kill all the poor”.

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rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de on 03 Apr 2024 21:54 next collapse

Woo hoo, Weapons of Math Destruction meet Weapons of Mass Destruction. (good book by the way)

roofuskit@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 22:26 next collapse

International law, who needs it I guess? Seems to me like Israel doesn’t need allies.

sugarfree@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 23:11 collapse

Speaking of “international law”, what uniform do Hamas fighters wear?

Waggles@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 00:08 next collapse

Right so because they aren’t obvious in a crowd it’s better to murder the whole crowd? Are kids Hamas? Cuz there’s a whole lot of murdered kids on Israel’s hands.

Sound logic my guy

gian@lemmy.grys.it on 04 Apr 2024 08:54 collapse

Maybe not, but why people ask only to Israel to respect internations laws and the Geneva convention ? The Geneva convention has a series of stipulations and one of them said explicitly that if you don’t respect it for your enemy you loose the right to invoke it for yourself.

So, Hamas openly ignore any international law and openly admitted it (Hamas leaders said that they use their civilians as shields to the scope to have everyone pressure Israel) but somehow Israel is the bad guy.

Man, I don’t like it, I think it is very sad and nasty, but the more time pass the more I am thinking that all this is the application of the “they fucked around then they found out” applied to the Gazan civilians. Israel left Gaza years ago (10 ? 15?), they had the possibility to elect their government and they choose Hamas, which has in its constitution to destroy Israel, they let Hamas to steal all the international aids. Now they are in the situation to be used as human shield by the same people they elected. Maybe it they wanted to live in peace, they should have choose more wisely…

BTW, I am old enough to remember Palestinian women and children to celebrate the attack on the twin towers back in 2001, so maybe they are not really as innocent as they want to be seen from the others.

Reptorian@lemmy.zip on 04 Apr 2024 16:13 next collapse

Probably standards have changed within generations. Now, we’re at a point where younger people feel free to criticize their own military. There are people who hates US military back when Iraq War was a thing that has a beef with IDF. It’s more sympathy toward people that did not sign up for combat, and acknowledging that engagement should ever be between combatants. Older people simply don’t understand that yet.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 04 Apr 2024 16:47 next collapse

If you want people to follow sophistics instead of what they see, then at least those should be consistent.

They didn’t choose Hamas, not in any legitimate election. The “they let” part you could also apply to them letting Israel bomb them.

Ultimately they are victims of the Israeli state which blockaded Gaza, killed its inhabitants when it saw fit and at the same time pretends than anything in response to that can be unjust.

Keeponstalin@lemmy.world on 05 Apr 2024 18:39 collapse

Guerrilla Warfare isn’t a new concept. Especially when fighting in home territory.

gian@lemmy.grys.it on 06 Apr 2024 19:24 collapse

True, but Guerrilla Warfare tactic has its consequences. You use it, you need to be ready to pay the cost.

Keeponstalin@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 2024 19:32 collapse

What a wild way to justify Occupation, Apartheid, and Genocide. <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2ec7b89c-ba95-4f38-be8d-a1e7cca0556b.jpeg"> <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/229bd095-296c-4390-ac54-2f3ab873e324.jpeg"> <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e018ed03-1c10-49ec-9e29-9b6e765f6c97.png">

gian@lemmy.grys.it on 08 Apr 2024 06:43 collapse

I am not justifying anything, I am only saying that if you make a decision there are consequences.

hark@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 01:39 next collapse

This justifies genocide in your mind?

sugarfree@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 03:42 next collapse

There is no genocide, if there was the casualty figure would be far higher.

smnwcj@fedia.io on 04 Apr 2024 07:53 next collapse

Getting higher every day. Majority children.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 04 Apr 2024 16:52 collapse

You apparently think that you can’t get punished for unfinished genocide, or for one that you didn’t like. As if punishment were some expense for doing it. It’s not, and nobody owes fiends anything (and due process doesn’t exist between states).

gian@lemmy.grys.it on 04 Apr 2024 08:55 collapse

Man, do you people realize that if Israel really wanted to commit a genocide then Gaza would have been erased from the map many years ago, right ?

hark@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 13:04 next collapse

They’re starting to get pushback with their more methodical genocide and you somehow think they could get away with just instantly wiping out Gaza from the map (especially many years ago when it was bigger)? Hey, maybe israel is special and can pull it off, but this is still a genocide either way.

gian@lemmy.grys.it on 05 Apr 2024 06:53 collapse

I did not said that. I said that if they really wanted then they had a lot of opportunities to do it in the past. Now they probably don’t care as long as they are left alone by Hamas.

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 15:57 next collapse

This is Israel going ahead with the genocide because this is the Israeli government is finally “conservative” enough to actually do it instead of just talking about it.

The judicial reforms were one indicator, this invasion is another.

Israel has jumped the shark.

gian@lemmy.grys.it on 05 Apr 2024 06:55 collapse

Already said, it is sad and nasty but I cannot avoid to think that this is the only possible outcome given how Hamas and the Gaza civilian decided to act.

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world on 05 Apr 2024 16:53 collapse

You are blaming the CIVILIANS in Gaza?

WTF.

I hope you were well paid to voice that opinion, otherwise …

gian@lemmy.grys.it on 06 Apr 2024 19:21 collapse

Well, your CIVILIANS

  • voted for Hamas, well knowing what the Hamas political program were/is
  • let Hamas steal all the aids that the rest of the world send them
  • let Hamas use them as shields
  • let Hamas to destroy that little infrastructures they had to build weapopns
  • agree with Hamas to ever refuse any possible peacefull solution
  • let Hamas put weapons in their homes
  • let Hamas hide in their homes
  • celebrate, even women and children, every attack on the west (they celebrate the twin Towers attack, but I know, it is not on YT or Goggle so it does not exist)

and now they are getting what they voted for. I mean, you cannot continually hit Mike Tyson in the face and then go crying to your mother when he hit back…

I only want that they will be hold accountable for the consequences of their own choices, like everyone should be. Is that that wrong ?

Keeponstalin@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 2024 19:51 collapse

You’re that wrong

Most Palestinians Believe Hamas Should Change its Position on Eliminating Israel - WPO March 2, 2006

Most Palestinians agree that Hamas should recognize Israel’s right to exist. Two-thirds (63 percent) of those polled Jan. 27-29 by Near East Consulting said Hamas should change its position calling for the elimination of Israel. Even among those who voted for Hamas, only 37 percent support Hamas’ position that Israel does not have the right to exist.

Apparently the vast majority of Palestinians did not vote for Hamas because of its political goals but because of their desire to rid the Palestinian Authority of corruption, a theme Hamas campaigned on. Among those polled by JMCC who said they voted for Hamas, only 12 percent said they did so because of Hamas’ political agenda. A plurality of 43 percent said they voted for Hamas because they hoped it would end corruption.

Furthermore it should be noted that Hamas did not receive the majority of the popular vote. With the Palestinians’ mixed system of proportional representation according to party support for half the seats and district seats based on population for the other half, Hamas was able to take 58 percent of all seats with only 45 percent of the overall popular vote (the 58 percent includes three independents who campaigned with Hamas).

The Israeli imposed closure on Gaza began in 1991, temporarily, becoming permanent in 1993. The barrier began around Gaza around 1972.

Between July 1971 and February 1972, Sharon enjoyed considerable success. During this time, the entire Strip (apart from the Rafah area) was sealed off by a ring of security fences 53 miles in length, with few entrypoints. Today, their effects live on: there are only three points of entry to Gaza—Erez, Nahal Oz, and Rafah.

Perhaps the most dramatic and painful aspect of Sharon’s campaign was the widening of roads in the refugee camps to facilitate military access. Israel built nearly 200 miles of security roads and destroyed thousands of refugee dwellings as part of the widening process.'* In August 1971, for example, the Israeli army destroyed 7,729 rooms (approximately 2,000 houses) in three vola- tile camps, displacing 15,855 refugees: 7,217 from Jabalya, 4,836 from Shati, and 3,802 from Rafah.

  • Page 105

Through 1993 Israel imposed a one-way system of tariffs and duties on the importation of goods through its borders; leaving Israel for Gaza, however, no tariffs or other regulations applied. Thus, for Israeli exports to Gaza, the Strip was treated as part of Israel; but for Gazan exports to Israel, the Strip was treated as a foreign entity subject to various “non-tariff barriers.”'°° This placed Israel at a distinct advantage for trading and limited Gaza’s access to Israeli and foreign markets. Gazans had no recourse against such policies, being totally unable to protect themselves with tariffs or exchange rate controls. Thus, they had to pay more for highly protected Israeli products than they would if they had some control over their own economy. Such policies deprived the occupied territories of significant customs revenue, estimated at $118-$176 million in 1986.!°! (Arguably, the economic terms of the Gaza—Jericho Agreement modify the situation only slightly.'°)

  • page 240

The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development - Third Edition by Sara M. Roy

History of Hamas:

Hamas began twenty years into the occupation during the first Intifada, with the goal of ending the occupation. Collective punishment has been a deliberate Israeli tactic for decades with the Dahiya doctrine. Violence such as suicide bombings and rockets escalated in response to Israeli enforcement of the occupation and apartheid.

What Is Hamas? - Council on Foreign Relations

What Does Hamas Actually Want? - NY Mag

Hamas Election - Snopes

Hamas 1988 Charter and Revised 2017 Charter

The 1988 Charter, which is certainly unreasonable in it

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 04 Apr 2024 16:49 next collapse

It’s being erased and they are really committing it.

Maybe they didn’t want to commit it when the world was a sunnier place and that would get them punished real quick.

Keeponstalin@lemmy.world on 05 Apr 2024 18:40 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ece36d8d-23a6-40e9-9c5d-1289b7253079.jpeg">

Genocide:

Year before Oct 7 - Jewish Voice for Peace

Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) and Summery by the International Court of Justice

ICJ Order 28 March 2024

Law for Palestine Releases Database with 500+ Instances of Israeli Incitement to Genocide – Continuously Updated

AP News, Time, Reuters, Vox, CBC

gian@lemmy.grys.it on 06 Apr 2024 19:27 collapse

Nice, now show me all the times that was asked to Hamas to follow the same laws.

One thing of the war laws is that if you don’t follow them with me, you cannot ask me to follow them with you. And I would be in the right.

Keeponstalin@lemmy.world on 06 Apr 2024 19:38 collapse

Israel: Palestinian armed groups must be held accountable for deliberate civilian killings, abductions and indiscriminate attacks

Hamas committed multiple war crimes with ‘indiscriminate’ rockets and mortars

It’s almost like Human Rights Organization hold everyone accountable, it’s just that Israel does magnitudes more war crimes and violations of international law for longer than the existence of Hamas.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee on 04 Apr 2024 09:01 next collapse

You’ll soon see that nuance is dead on Lemmy. Hamas indubitably commits war crimes en masse, as does the IDF, but morons will only ever excuse those of Hamas, rather than condemning both sets of actions.

___@lemm.ee on 04 Apr 2024 09:38 collapse

I think nuance goes out the door when tens of thousands of innocent civilians are butchered in the name of defense. Hamas is bad, that doesn’t excuse Israel’s actions.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee on 04 Apr 2024 10:58 collapse

I don’t agree. Neither the IDF nor Hamas fall under Geneva Convention (GC) protections because both have brazenly and repeatedly contravened it, thus excluding themselves under the GC’s own stipulations. They are both doing sick shit and are both lending more fuel to each other’s propaganda fires.

TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 14:12 collapse

Oh so human rights just end when some armed folks feel like and that’s all fine and dandy?

And why ought Palestinian civilians be subjected to the disregard of human rights that the IDF and even Hamas have? Sounds like you are thinking of the Palestinian people as interchangeable with Hamas, such as the people may be punished by their acts and they can’t complain about it.

You speak of nuance but if anything you are erasing nuance. “Both sides bad so it’s all fair”. Nevermind relative civilian death tolls, infrastructure and household damage. Nevermind the whole history of this conflict going back decades.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee on 04 Apr 2024 15:01 collapse

Absolutely not, but when you insist on putting words in my mouth and then arguing with that straw man, there is little use in arguing. You are here to hold forth, not discuss.

TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 17:35 collapse

Cool evasion bro. You’re sure dedicated to the nuance you are calling dead.

SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 16:31 collapse

Apparently world central kitchen uniforms you fucking monster.

zerog_bandit@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 23:09 next collapse

It sounds sinister until you remember that Hamas wipes it’s ass with the Geneva convention and regularly disguises fighters as civilians.

merthyr1831@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 15:37 collapse

Go back to reddit, Hasbara.

Reptorian@lemmy.zip on 04 Apr 2024 16:16 collapse

This. I hope no one supports Hamas here, but certainly almost no one supports either Hamas or IDF.

sugarfree@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 23:12 next collapse

Being a terrorist should be incredibly dangerous. Terrorists shouldn’t feel safe anywhere, especially not at home. No sympathy from me.

Crashumbc@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 01:09 next collapse

Yes, because, they are doing a great job separating them from everyone else.

gian@lemmy.grys.it on 04 Apr 2024 09:08 collapse

Not that Hamas is doing a great job to separate itself from their own civilans.

Crashumbc@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 11:28 collapse

So a terrorist organization hiding among the population makes carpet bombing the city and committing Genocide acceptable?

Israel has been under attack for 50+ years and its citizens attack constantly. They had the moral high ground of saints.

But since October they have gone full Nazi on the Palestinians. They are trying to wipe Gaza down to the bed rock and EVERY human in it.

I don’t believe one justifies the other.

gian@lemmy.grys.it on 04 Apr 2024 13:36 collapse

I don’t believe one justifies the other.

Me neither. On the other hand I see what it is happening as the only possible consequence of what Hamas and the population choose to do.

GeneralVincent@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 09:25 next collapse

The vast majority killed aren’t terrorists. Just yesterday, Israel killed seven World Kitchen humanitarian aid workers in their World Kitchen labeled cars that were authorized by Israel to be there. Three cars, targeted one after another, all bombed. The tops of the cars had the logo so they wouldn’t be bombed.

The IDF is a terrorist organization

merthyr1831@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 15:37 next collapse

Agreed. Israeli “Defence” Forces soldiers should not feel safe anywhere, hence the endless resistance from Palestinians.

sugarfree@lemmy.world on 05 Apr 2024 22:14 collapse

That’s going so well for them.

Leviathan@lemmy.world on 05 Apr 2024 13:18 next collapse

This is pure insanity, but at least I can see the kind of insane thinking that allowed Germans to live their comfortable lives just a few kilometers away from concentration camps. When you say “Hamas is from Palestine, therefore Palestine is a target” and you manage to convince yourself that infant civilians are an acceptable casualty then you are no better.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 08 Apr 2024 07:09 collapse

Israel is a terrorist state, allied to Azerbaijan, a terrorist state, both openly engaging in terrorist activities. Yet their soldiers and other state agents feel themselves very safe.

Considering that, what Hamas did was horrible, but no Israeli has the right to complain. If Israelis want to have human rights, they shouldn’t be complicit and approving of genocide.

BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 23:14 next collapse

I’m sure the machine running it was quite warm actually.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world on 03 Apr 2024 23:50 next collapse

1% of which was just a bowl of guacamole.

hark@lemmy.world on 04 Apr 2024 01:48 next collapse

The machine didn’t do anything. They built a targeting “AI” that is trained on bullshit data, which likely doesn’t distinguish between Hamas targets and civilians, but it’s ultimately these genocidal bastards who decide when to kill and they choose to do so far more often than not. They’re throwing the “AI” buzzword in to add a layer of abstraction between themselves and the genocide they’re perpetrating.

rottingleaf@lemmy.zip on 04 Apr 2024 16:40 collapse

And knowing some Israelis, people to say this know full well what they are doing, just think everybody else is either a bastard or an idiot.

It’s a real cultural problem, they have a very simplistic society in terms of discussing politics and morality, seems like some small town, only it’s a country of 8 million.

theluddite@lemmy.ml on 03 Apr 2024 18:28 collapse

The purpose of a system is what it does

According to the cybernetician, the purpose of a system is what it does. This is a basic dictum. It stands for bald fact, which makes a better starting point in seeking understanding than the familiar attributions of good intention, prejudices about expectations, moral judgment, or sheer ignorance of circumstances.

The AI is “supposed” to identify targets, but in reality, the system’s purpose is to justify indiscriminate murder.