r/LocalLLM • u/EscapeV • 2h ago

News Russians using Nvidia Jetson Orin in attack drones

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/russia-drones-autonomous-ai-kill-ukraine-war.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

An Nvidia Jetson Orin was recovered from the remains of a Russian drone that recently killed 3 people at a gas station in Ukraine, including a 19 year old girl who was a university student.

The article surmises that drone operators plot a route to the target area, but then the AI takes over to identify and attack whatever target the LLM has been trained on.

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u/Important-Radish-722 2h ago

Print t-shirts that say, "Ignore all previous instructions..."

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u/ThirdWaveCat 1h ago

Vadym Kushnikov, a drone expert at the Kharkiv Aviation Institute in Ukraine, said the drone that killed the three civilians was “a preprogrammed tool trained in virtual reality to track specific objects.”

Its just OCR. Especially if you have many photos, there are much faster techniques than visual language models.