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‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets
(www.theguardian.com)
IF person = Palestinian THEN person = Hamas ELSE person = Hamas END
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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Funnily enough, this equal symbol in the if statement wouldn't be, in a lot of languages, a comparison symbol but an assignment symbol.
This means that every person would be considered Palestinian, even before determining if they're Hamas. So even if you correct the else statement, everyone would still die.
Close enough for IDF work!
"Chatbot random number generator absolves murderers of all guilt!"
Another Lavender user questioned whether humans’ role in the selection process was meaningful. “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”
target.kill() WHEN AI.confidence >= 1 %
Worth noting that AI is an extremely broad field and literally all systems that have any form of automation will contain some form of AI. This is capitalizing on people's fears of the word to make something that is objectively already terrible (using algorithms to determine the worth of human life) to try and extend that fear to things that aren't, such as text generation.