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Re:Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets by stefan_ on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:04PM (#39922358)
Because this is war and not a SWAT police operation?

If soldiers in the field have reason to believe the enemy is in a building and call in air support to bomb it, no part of that is a war crime. Even if someone later goes and discovers the people in that building were actually preschoolers; what matters is what the people in the field making the decisions knew at that moment.

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Re:Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets by ThalesX on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:10PM (#39923196)
> what matters is what the people in the field making the decisions knew at that moment

This is insane. What matters is the objective truth, whether or not dozens of preschoolers were killed due to an operational mistake.

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Re:Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets by stefan_ on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:17PM (#39923282)
War is horrible, what’s new? But few things in it qualify for war crimes.
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Re:Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets by FireBeyond on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @04:55PM (#39923008)
You realize you're actively advocating for a lack of critical thinking and investigation, to maintain plausible deniability? What could possibly go wrong?
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