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‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza (www.972mag.com)

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[–] skhayfa@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”

Genocide provided to you by an AI, welcome to the 21st century.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

And we're all watching without being able to do anything to stop it, it's great, can't wait to see more genocides next year

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Wasn't that the plot of Captain America 2?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

To the Canadians and Americans in the room...

Remember what our ancestors did to Native Americans and Indigenous populations centuries ago? This is a speedrun of that, aided with modern technologies and artificial intelligence to cause terrorism and calculated genocide and a capture of Palestinians and their homes.

In this era, instead of arrows and spears vs. guns, it's wire-guided rockets vs. aerial strikes.

Edited to add

Fuck the more I think about it the more I see the parallels and it upsets me.

An analogous scenario would be like this:

Settler and native group don't get along.
Tensions bubble and dissipate, fighting happens, some deals try to be worked out over decades, whatever.
Native group gets fed up and sets some huts on fire killing a few of the innocent families who had nothing to do with the conflict.
Settler group, understandably angry, vow to completely eradicate all elements of Indigenous culture.
Anything smelling of "cultural barbarism" is destroyed, families are displaced and relocated to new areas in terrible conditions.
Various tribes that were in different relationship states are indiscriminately attacked.
The goal is to eliminate the relevance of the other culture to "pressure their leaders to give up", but in actuality the latter is left out of the goal.
Various treaties and promises are made but not fully followed through.

Looked at it this way, this conflict feels all too familiar like some repeat of history despite our shiny new "peacemaking" tools.

[–] anarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In case you - or anyone reading this - are unaware, the term covering the patterns you're describing is 'settler colonialism'. It differs from 'exploitation colonialism' in that it aims to not only profit from a territory, but to replace the population that is there with another population. What you describe are the logical consequences of that. I think your first two points are understating the history in Palestine/Israel, though. There was intentional displacement of the indigenous population from the start.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thanks, that term describes it aptly. Yes, I know that area has a long long history but these events are on the next order of magnitude in recent history there.

It just kind of shocked me, from all the apologizing and reparations we pay for our past mistakes to our natives/places we settled (think Canada, US, Australia, Japan, UK, on and on), I had the naïve idea that most developed Western countries got over doing and supporting this kind of behaviour. Clearly not.

I'd hoped we come in, of course condemning what Hamas did on Oct. 7th, but put clear boundaries on what Israel as a military and their paramilitary organizations can do in retaliation, and what they cannot. When those are crossed, step in and say firmly "we don't do that here". Turns out we (from the North American perspective) give them carte blanche, because they're the US's middle east sweetheart.