Europe Pub (PieFed)Microsoft's role in world’s first AI-driven genocide, in Gaza, exposed
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38225224
Microsoft is facing mounting criticism over its controversial complicity in “Israel’s” genocide in Gaza, with charges that its technologies have enabled surveillance, targeted assassinations, and repression of Palestinians. Critics say the company has played a central role in what some are calling the world’s first AI-driven genocide.
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This image makes the Windows logo look like a political alignment chart and now I can’t unsee it.
It’s from 2024, but some of the best coverage of the use of AI in this genocide is from 972mag, a journalistic outlet whose team includes Israelis and Palestinians. https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Huh, guess AI really IS getting to be indistinguishable from humans. It’s certainly got the inhumanity down pat.
Does anyone have a link to the original report mentioned in the article?
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Wispy2891So when are we going to see Microsoft execs who knew about this (guaranteed, all of em) in jail cells for being complicit in a genocide?
I mean, I steal a loaf of bread and I might already end up in a jail cell. One would think that assisting in an actual genocide would get you a noose but who am into wonder about that?
1984Brother what are you talking about. The last president of both major political parties were equally complicit.
The charges, detailed in a report by MintPress News journalist Alan MacLeod, include the use of Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure for surveillance and so-called “kill lists”, the employment of former Israeli intelligence operatives, and internal suppression of employees opposed to the company’s ties with the Israeli occupation forces.
As The Associated Press reported, “among US tech firms, Microsoft has had an especially close relationship with the Israeli military,” a connection that deepened after October 7, 2023.
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A senior Israeli officer referred to the cloud system as “a weapon in every sense of the word,” though others within the military expressed concern about strategic vulnerabilities due to overdependence on Microsoft technologies
This will go down in history as the most genocidal use of computers and IT infrastructure ever, by quite a longshot and longterm it will force Microsoft to change its name for fear of being recognized and labelled as “The Genocide Computer Company” IF the company even survives it.
I hope the pieces of shit who kept their mouth shut and just did the work at Microsoft to make this happen continue to be haunted by the screams of children for the rest of their life when they go to fall asleep.
There will be no forgetting and no rest for these murderers.
… and longterm it will force Microsoft to change its name for fear of being recognized and labelled as “The Genocide Computer Company” IF the company even survives it.
Call me pessimistic but this will be forgotten in a week and will not affect the company one bit.
It will not.
This is an unprecedented use of computers and IT infrastructure in a wholistic and complete surveillance of a group of people for the purposes of ethnic cleansing, the evidence is undeniable.
What you mistake for a confidence this will all blow away is simply your bayesian future prediction mechanisms failing because again, this is an unprecedented act of violence in the realm of computers.
You meant to say that you cannot imagine this will keep growing as a scandal and engulf Microsoft because your imagination has not been supplied the necessary examples in reality to be convinced this eventuality could happen. You are simply restating the limitations of bayesian statistics in the context of this specific question. We can only forecast what has happened before, this has never happened before and the size and intensity of it will hit US culture and the IT industry in overbearing waves that last far longer than you or I can convince ourselves it will…
It is only after this scandal has run its course, over the years and years it will take to, that we will be able to say with any confidence whether a future scandal of this intensity, of using computers to murder people at a mass scale, is likely to be ignored by the public or not. This complicity in genocide is destined to become a horrid touchstone, talking about whether it will blow over or not in the immediate aftermath of the moment it happens is kind of missing the point. This is a historical moment.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮I don’t like them saying first AI-driven genocide as that implies there will be more. 😨