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A farmer carries a part of a Russian FPV drone that he shot down with a rifle as he watches the burning field following an air attack in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, August 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Russian team ‘misused’ Claude AI to train a killer drone on scraped Ukrainian war footage

John R. Heckman, Brock University

Visual footage — even that created by journalists and civilians to document conflict and hold nations accountable — can now become raw material for weapons development.

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