The incentives are worse than that. They aren’t rewarding kills, they are rewarding videos-of-kills.
So, if the video cameras aren’t rolling, the incentive might be to not kill until you can get the camera set up.
Also, drone footage cuts out when the drone hits the target.
Decoys exist. So does smoke. And equipment has a pretty continuous scale from fully functional to fully broken. This rule incentivizes wasting ammo blowing up a tank that’s already basically scrap.
And if it’s videos that are being used as proof. Well AI videos aren’t quite there yet, but probably will be soon. I wouldn’t expect kill markets to work as easily in a world where AI can easily generate fake kill footage.
Also, drone footage cuts out when the drone hits the target.
Yes, for small, explosive drones. But the Vampire drones mentioned in the article are much bigger and are usually used to drop an explosive payload that detaches from the drone and drops onto the enemy.
The incentives are worse than that. They aren’t rewarding kills, they are rewarding videos-of-kills.
So, if the video cameras aren’t rolling, the incentive might be to not kill until you can get the camera set up.
Also, drone footage cuts out when the drone hits the target.
Decoys exist. So does smoke. And equipment has a pretty continuous scale from fully functional to fully broken. This rule incentivizes wasting ammo blowing up a tank that’s already basically scrap.
And if it’s videos that are being used as proof. Well AI videos aren’t quite there yet, but probably will be soon. I wouldn’t expect kill markets to work as easily in a world where AI can easily generate fake kill footage.
Yes, for small, explosive drones. But the Vampire drones mentioned in the article are much bigger and are usually used to drop an explosive payload that detaches from the drone and drops onto the enemy.
(Otherwise I agree with your point)