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Ukraine is sending photos of dead Russian soldiers to their families, the Washington Post reports.
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Authorities hope that the horrifying image will make the Russians every day oppose the war.
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The corpse has been identified using facial recognition technology donated by Clearview AI to Ukraine.
Ukraine is using facial recognition software in a horrifying campaign to make Russian mothers oppose the war. The Washington Post reported Friday.
Free software donated by the controversial US company Clearview AI is used to scan and identify the faces of Russian soldiers who have died in Ukraine.
Later, images of the bodies of Russian soldiers were sent back to Russian families, Post reported.
I hope that the harsh reality of death on the battlefield will shock the Russians every day and oppose the war.
Both Ukraine and Russia Using face recognition as a weapon In the ongoing war. Russia is using this technology to identify and arrest anti-war activists. Ukraine uses it to identify both its own dead and the dead of its enemies.
So far, about 9,000 facial recognition searches have been performed on dead or captured Russian soldiers, The Post reported.
The Russian family was sent images related to 582 dead soldiers, a volunteer hacker working with the Ukrainian government told the post.
Clearview Criticized for scraping social media images When Its use by US law enforcement agencies.. Ukraine’s free access to a database of 2 million image software from Russian social media shows a new use of the technology as an anti-war propaganda.
Some have warned that the strategy could backfire.
“Is it really working?” London-based surveillance researcher Stephanie Hair told Post. “Or are you making it? [Russians] Say: “Looking at these lawless and cruel Ukrainians, are you doing this to our boys?”
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