The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service and AI from Google and Microsoft for military activities in Gaza, investigation reveals.

The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service to store surveillance information on Gaza’s population, while procuring further AI tools from Google and Microsoft for military purposes, an investigation reveals.

  • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    3 months ago

    In the past, “you would see the whites of your enemy’s eyes, look through binoculars and see him explode.” Today, however, when a target appears, “you tell [soldiers] through the laptop, ‘Shoot with the tank.'”

    One of the apps on the military’s internal cloud is called Z-Tube (Z being short for Zahal, the acronym for the IDF); it is a website, which looks much like Youtube, that allows soldiers to access live footage of all the military’s filming devices in Gaza, including UAVs. Another app, called “MapIt,” allows soldiers to mark targets in real time on a collaborative, interactive map. “Targets are the heaviest layer on the map,” a security source told +972 and Local Call. “It looks like every house has a target.”

    A related app called “Hunter” is used for signaling targets in Gaza and detecting patterns of behavior using AI

    Jesus, that explains why there’s so many Israeli kids in Gaza slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians in residential neighborhoods