Israeli Journalist Yuval Abraham on Lavender AI System
Lavender is an AI-based system to create human targets, to mark them. So what it did at its peak, according to sources who have used it, it managed to mark 37,000 Palestinians in Gaza as suspected low-level Hamas or Jihad militants.
How the Lavender AI System Works
Now, the way it works is, for people who don’t know, like the machine scanned most of the population in Gaza, collecting surveilling information, and Lavender AI system gave each individual a kill score rating between 1 to 100, based on how likely the Lavender AI machine thought that individual belonged to a military wing. It has a list of indicative features, which are really small signs that could be like somebody is in a WhatsApp group with a militant, or somebody that replaces phones all the time, that raise or lower your rating.
Sources Using the Machine Speaks Out
Now sources said, and this is very, very important, that this Lavender AI machine, when they were using it, the Israeli Defense Force knew that in approximately 10% of the cases, it was making what was regarded as errors. So it was marking people with a kill score who were complete civilians or had a very loose connection to Hamas. It is an automatic AI system that looks for these human targets when they enter their family houses.
So it scans thousands of human targets that were marked by Lavender, by the AI machine, and it alerts the intelligence officers the moment they enter their house. The Israeli military, according to numerous sources, carried out a policy of bombing these people using unguided missiles when they were in the most civilian spaces, when they were inside family houses. Collapsing the house on itself, and killing often, according to sources, the predetermined limit was up to 20 Palestinian civilians at the beginning of the war, per AI marked junior suspected Hamas operatives.
Jake Shields – Israel Now Targeting Americans with Kill Score
I got home last night and I looked at Twitter and Lavender was trending. Lavender is an AI Israel uses to kill Palestinians. They give kill score based on multiple data points. At a 70, they will kill you. At 85, they will blow up your entire block.
They are now giving the kill score to American citizens on Twitter. I’m at an 88. If I was at a school, they would blow up the school and kill 100 kids. That’s what my score means. So why is our greatest ally giving us kill scores? This should anger people.
Investigation by PLUS 972 Magazine and Yuval Abraham
Israel has been using an AI system called Lavender that marked at least 37,000 Palestinians as suspected terrorists and to compile part of its kill score list during its ongoing military offensive in Palestine’s Gaza.
According to an investigative report by the PLUS 972 magazine and Local Call, testimonies by Israeli military officials revealed how Lavender was used to assassinate individuals in Gaza with almost no human oversight to verify the human targets identified by the AI.
The AI system analyzes data obtained through the mass surveillance of most of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents to identify potential human targets. The AI system ranks every individual in Gaza on a scale of 1 to 100 with a kill score, according to the probability that they are involved with the military wing of and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Some of the human targets mistakenly flagged by the system included relatives of operatives, those with social media connections to members, and even people who happen to have the same names as operatives
Jake Shields – Kill Score to Bomb Schools and Americans
Ian Carroll has a 94, which is insane. That means they would bomb Ian at a school full of children. This is an American citizen. They’ll argue, “Oh, we’re not gonna kill you. We’re not gonna use it for Palestinians.” Why are they tracking the data points giving us these kill scores. It shows they want to kill us these people want to kill us.
PLUS 972 Magazine – Lavender: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
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