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The Artificial intelligence also plays an important role in the ukrainian war. In the approximately month and a half of the conflict, the country governed by Zelensky has been trying to exploit the options offered by this technology in order to combat the invasion orchestrated from the Kremlin. Just days after Russian soldiers began planting the soles of their boots on Ukrainian soil, the company Clearview AI made its controversial facial recognition tool available to the state.
It is estimated that the system, with trained algorithms capable of recognizing faces, has stored more than 10,000 million photos of people from all over the world. Of these, it is believed that some 2,000 million would come, specifically, from VKontakte, the most popular social network in Russia, as ‘Reuters’ shared a few weeks ago.
According to information from ‘The New York Times’, since the Ukrainian government began using the tool in mid-March, it has been used to recognize killed Russian soldiers. And it is that, as Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, stated, the country is trying to contact the relatives of Russian citizens who lose their lives in the war as a mechanism to weaken the Kremlin’s propaganda campaign within its borders.
The tool can also be useful when carrying out population control tasks or identifying Russian soldiers deployed in the country. It has also been used to track down suspected perpetrators of civilian killings in Ukrainian cities like Bucha and Irpin.
“Today, technology makes it possible to find everyone who has been captured at least once by a target. And considering how much they like to post photos on the internet and the number of cameras in cities and houses, we will solve this issue very quickly,” said the Ukrainian Minister of Digital Transformation in statements collected by the Unian agency.
Fedorov remarked that, in fact, the state had already been able to “find many murderers who terrorized civilians in Bucha and Irpen.” In addition, he pointed out that, “in a short time, we will establish all the information about these people: their profiles on social networks, where and with whom they serve and live.”
However, it is known that any type of technology can suffer failures and, in a war situation, a failure of a system such as Clearview could end up being fatal. In the European Union, in fact, this technology is contrary to the General Data Protection Regulation, as the specialized jurist Samuel Parra stated a few weeks ago in a conversation with ABC. Some countries, such as Australia or France, have ordered the company to remove the images of their Internet users.
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