> Witnesses and an education ministry official said that the school was located on a compound that was a base for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps until about 15 years ago.
In this case it seems plausible that the military would have an outdated database, and that an LLM would have "known" it wasn't a base anymore, assuming the LLM was trained on documents/maps with this up to date information.
School was part of the base few years back, there is still guard tower right next to it and tons of social media pictures of military doing military things inside the school. No need for AI to make that mistake.
The school was a seperate building so targeting or weapon precision was pretty sloppy.
The shift toward war crime whataboutism is a new low for HN, capping off a week of aggressive warmongering and intellectualized cruelty in every comment thread about Iran.
Modern technology allows for precision that was impossible in WW2. Using civilian casualties in WW2 to justify them today is horrible.
WW2 was a total war. This isn't even a war according to our laws. Even if we concluded that the firebombing was acceptable (and oodles of people call it a war crime), this does not transfer that justification to these attacks.
I am also not terribly interested in using the evil acts of terrorist groups to justify our own evil acts. Would it be acceptable in your mind to behead captured Iranian PoWs because various terrorist groups do this? I would hope not.
