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Ukraine reportedly adopts Clearview AI to track Russian invaders:
Ukraine is reportedly using Clearview AI technologies to track "people of interest" during the Russian invasion.
On March 13, Reuters reported that the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine had adopted the firm's facial recognition engine.
Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That offered the US company's assistance to Kyiv, and according to the news outlet, the AI tech is being used to "potentially vet people of interest at checkpoints, among other uses," for free.
The startup has not offered the same to Russia, of which President Putin calls the war a "special military operation."
Clearview offers facial recognition technologies to law enforcement for criminal investigations. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded the company a patent in January for using publicly-available data -- including mugshots, social media profiles, and news sites -- to match "similar photos using its proprietary facial recognition algorithm."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Rich on Tuesday March 15 2022, @10:56AM
Now couple that with autonomous drones set to "kill". What about friendly fire, you say? Not worse than your average human unit.
If in doubt, and if it has to be quick, the drones could kill anyone in enemy territory without a positive "friend" identification. But if the drones are supposed to be cautious when they don't recognize someone, they could use a taser-projectile-like probe to bring home DNA. That way you'd soon have a full bio-profile of the entire enemy population even if you don't have root at the genealogy services and could later save a lot of ammunition with better kill targeting, even interpolating appearance from genetics. But I'm probably not misanthropic enough to imagine what they are really brewing up in the labs.
And given that about 5000 of such drones would fit into a shipping container is why I've been warning about the situation: Lingering, moving, solar-recharging, striking unpredictably, anywhere.