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gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters”

www.wired.com

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Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters”

www.wired.com

gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago
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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
www.wired.com
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Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250418115851/https://www.wired.com/story/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-personas-police-suspects/

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        It’s only entrapment if you’re rich.

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    All the more reason for me to have my shit locked down and not respond to people I don’t know.

    Like honestly I haven’t had a sketchy interaction on social media for years because all my shit is private and I don’t use my real name or even a picture of my face anymore.

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      Hey Banana, do you want to talk about violent sex crimes that I think you’ve been thinking about, the ones that I’ve been thinking you might be thinking about doing? /s

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    its executive director of public safety, Chris Clem, who is a former US Customs and Border Protection agent who testified before Congress about border security last year and regularly appears on Fox News

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      Thought Police.

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