A new report by the Washington Post found that Ukrainian soldiers are sending photos of dead Russian soldiers.
According to WaPo, the software was able to identify an individual whose head had been damaged during the war.
The company's tech can work on photos from multiple angles, in darkness, with and without glasses, and photos of only parts of a face, due to state of the art artificial intelligence technology.
The phenomenon makes the line between hacktivist and war criminal fuzzier than ever, according to one London expert.
If Russian soldiers were doing this with Ukrainian mothers, we would say it was barbaric. Is it making them say, "Look at these lawless, cruel Ukrainians, doing this to our boys"?
It's easy to see Hare's point about siding with the Ukrainian soldiers, given the amount of misinformation Putin is sending. The site of the worst nuclear disaster in history was attacked by Russia for crying out loud, but it didn't seem to care about radiation poisoning until its fighters got sick and fled.
How would a family react to a photo of a dead child if they believed in the propaganda about Ukrainians being overrun by Nazi terrorists and Western threats?
If Ukraine is still going to weaponize a piece of tech that can scans a database of 20 billion images taken from social media and the internet, it could still move forward in a way that doesn't result in as much mass trauma.
It's not hard to imagine using the same tech for more humane ends. Wouldn't it be better to send a weekly casualty report to the families? It could provide a service to those who aren't sure if their loved ones are still alive.
Newspapers used to report war time death tolls for US armies, so why can't Ukraine do the same?
More on Putin's public relations strategy.
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