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Ukraine is Using AI to Catch People Sabotaging Its Resistance (newsweek.com) 55

Posted by EditorDavid from the fifth-column dept.
Newsweek reports: Artificial intelligence has become one of Ukraine's most "effective tools" in identifying potential saboteurs amid the ongoing war with Russia, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs. The ministry issued a report Wednesday on law enforcement's anti-sabotage activities aimed at stopping people in Ukraine who may compromise the counteroffensive or aid Russia in its assault.

Officers have been using software on tablets to check if a person they view as "suspicious" is already listed in databases, including a police database of about 2 million people suspected of holding positions in paramilitary units from the far-right faction known as the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR)... The ministry said that Ukrainian police have been fighting against such saboteurs ever since Russia invaded Ukraine. "More than 123 counter-sabotage groups were set up, and at least 1,500 people were involved," First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevgeny Yenin said in a statement, according to an English translation. "And the result was not long in coming: More than 800 people suspected of sabotage and intelligence activities were detained and handed over to the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) for investigation."

The report, citing Yenin, said that the police database on people with suspected ties to the LDPR alone contains a "huge amount" of operational information that law enforcement and partners have compiled. This includes more than 10 billion photos, it said...

Russia has also reportedly contended with sabotage from supporters of Ukraine within its borders.
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  • BREAKING!!! (Score:5, Funny)

    by ZiggyZiggyZig ( 5490070 ) on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:41AM (#62635252)

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    • Aye aye aye! caramba! we bombed our own camp. And what is thees blue screen?

    • Database software is the new AI. Oracle becomes new AI leader on the AI market of AI, MySQL said to be renamed AISQL and MariaDB will become MarAIDB.

      In related news Microsoft AI Department considers revamping Access To Become the Small-Business AI Tool of choice for small businesses that want to do AI, to the dismay of the AI community.

      Stay tuned for more news soon!

      But ... tablets! They used tablets!

      There is no way that Russia can stand against such advanced AI technology!!

    • Do you think Oracle database has SELECT human_id WHERE passport_photo LIKE '%blobref%' ?

      They use a neural net for pattern matching because neural nets are good at that.

  • Ukraine has precision geo-location data (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Ukraine has, or had, a stack of developers involved in geolocation companies. While those are supposed to "anonymize" their personal data, the resulting maps include very precise details about the location and movement of wifi access points. I know several Russians who work for those same companies, I do wonder how they're trying to protect the data now. Bundling it up and shipping it every week to companies with fake names whose real contact information was kept secret was always a questionable practice: I

  • All is fair... (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    And there you have it: What "western" full-on digital surveilance will be used for. Even if it's out of sheer necessity, even if it's in a war-torn country with scant infrastructure.

    None of this will go away, and then the infrastructure will be rebuilt and become yet more pervasive than ever before. Count on it.

    I for one, etc.

  • select * from people where location = 'KYIV' and name like '%ovich' ItS aLl dOnE uSiNg SeNtIeNt AI. InVeSt NoW! #cryptoAI

  • Butthurt Russians whinig like babies (Score:3, Interesting)

    by quonset ( 4839537 ) on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:57AM (#62635550)

    It's hilarious to see comments from Russian trolls talking about "nazis" when the Wagner PMC group literally has people with swastikas tattooed on their bodies, give the Nazi salute [pmc-wagner.com], and proudly display the Nazi flag. The head of Wagner even has Nazi SS tattoos [reddit.com]. One thing is for sure, Putin is certainly "de-nazifying" Ukraine by sending all those Wagner nazis to their deaths [newsweek.com].

    Then of course is the whining about how Ukraine is being so authoritarian by tracking down those who attempt to undermine Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion. Considering Putin has outlawed any talk of soldier's deaths [rferl.org] in Ukraine, prevents family members from talking about the mutliple dozens of dead sailors from the sinking of the Moskva as well as denying any compensation [yahoo.com] for the deaths during war, and arrests anyone who protest the war [theguardian.com], the attempted deflection is truly pathetic.

    It's like how Putin keeps whining the sanctions should be lifted while at the same time saying sanctions have no effect. If all you talk about is lifting sanctions, they're having an effect.

    • I was amused by the outrage expressed on Russian state television when Ukraine struck back at targets in Russia. How dare they!

      • Same here. But its tough to fight a war without hitting supply lines, ala US in Korea, US in Vietnam, US in Afghanistan, etc.
        Then theres orcs like this one.

        http://duma.gov.ru/en/news/545... [duma.gov.ru]

        • > But its tough to fight a war without hitting supply lines

          It's awful what's going on in Ukraine, but isn't it even worse to spread that further outside of Ukraine ?

          I don't think we'd want Russia or the US, or one of their allies, to do that.

      • I was amused by the outrage expressed on Russian state television when Ukraine struck back at targets in Russia. How dare they!

        It's completely weird that a country being invaded should defend itself by any and all means, isn't it?

        In related news, it appears Ukraine has hammered Russian-occuiped Snake Island. Multiple reports [charter97.org] of a large number of explosions on the island. This is in addition to Ukraine striking stolen drilling rigs [yahoo.com] and the sinking of another ship (only a tugboat delivering supplies and men) on Friday.

        Can't wait for the whining to get louder.

      • The double-think in Russia feels so... anachronistic? It's like reading 1984, or another dystopian novel where society is just so weirdly pro-government that it makes no sense, and you have to have a lot of suspension of disbelief to continue reading.

        But if nonsense can take hold in the US, then imagine this is a country with a dictator and a near total control over all media (I mean Russia, not India). So they could hold the contrary views in their head at the same time; that it's ok to bomb Ukraine to t

  • I understand Ukraine is at war with its very existence as nation and culture on the line. Still, what they are actually doing is in my view unjustifiable in a democratic society. Essentially, If you are Ukrainian that was at some point involved in a political activities of pro-Russian party, your are automatically considered a suspect in sabotage and an application using facial recognition will flag you to any "law" enforcement official.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by DarkOx ( 621550 )

      Democracy or at least some form of republican representation is a GREAT THING. Its nice way to run a society that values the individual, enables some measure of justice, and allows ideas an thinking to evolve.

      What it isn't or should not be any is an end unto itself. Churchill was right when he said something to the effect of Democracy is the worst form of government, excepting everything else that has been tried. Democracy is a feature of all the best societies/cultures; but its not without certain vulnerab

      • Re:What they are actually doing (Score:5, Insightful)

        by evorster ( 2664141 ) on Monday June 20, 2022 @09:23AM (#62635724) Homepage

        I was with you until you said that you the US should stay out of this fight, because it's not your fight.

        The big, big problem with this fight is that as Russia absorbs smaller countries, it gets bigger and braver. Much like those games where you are a little fish that can only eat fish that are smaller than you, and so you keep eating and growing until you can get to the really big fish?

        The first time it invaded another country the whole world should have been there, driving the foreign troops out of the country, and putting an end to this invading idea. That would have been the end of it, but no... since it's not your fight you stay out f it?

        You just wait until it does become your fight? Do you realize that if you wait long enough you might have to face off against an enemy that you may not be able to win?

        Of course, there is the not so insignificant matter of the US also invading other countries, and the whole world should have been just as strict with the US there. No more invasions!

        Any country in the world should have the ability to ask for military assistance to protect it's sovereignty and borders.

        • > Of course, there is the not so insignificant matter of the US also invading other countries,

          It is complex, and at the risk of oversimplifying, US supported Ukrainians have been fighting Russian supported Ukrainians politically and militarily for over a decade, along with other Ukrainian groups, like those that want independence from both the western and eastern forces.

        • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

          by Darinbob ( 1142669 )

          Remember, we were supposed to stay out of WWII, because it wasn't our fight. Even in Europe, there was hesitation to get involved, hoping Hitler would be satisfied with some parts of central Europe. Today, Putin is the reincarnation of Hitler and he's following the same playbook. Do we appease him again?

          Remember, the US helped create some of the problem in Russia. We kept coddling Putin, even have he violated cease fires, even with proof he wasn't a good guy, we did nothing but ultra weak sanctions, or d

    • Yeah the USA would never do such a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

  • Ah, to be accused of a crime, by a rich company.

  • AI flags you and you get detained? Given all we know about AI bias, that sounds quite scaring.

    How do they make sure it actually works accurately?

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