3mo 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

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

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3mo ago

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

www.wired.com /story/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-personas-police-suspects/

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3mo ago

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

www.wired.com /story/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-personas-police-suspects/

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3mo ago

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

www.wired.com /story/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-personas-police-suspects/

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- It is only entrapment if the police in the course of their duties or investigation suggest you commit a crime, or ask you to commit a crime.
  
  More specifically, if they convince you to do something you wouldn't normally have done. Like if you want to buy drugs, and they suggest you buy some coke off their guy, that's not entrapment. If they spend weeks convincing you that you should do it, give you money or other resources to do it, or so on, then it can be entrapment.
  
  It's only entrapment if you're rich.
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.
- I really wanted to believe your real name is Banana.
  
  You don't know for sure that it isn't 😏
- 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
  
  BananaChatBot.exe has entered the chat
  Prompt: cheerfully describe, in detail, thoughts about about putting obscure historical artifacts in your butt, for research purposes.
  
  You joke, but you don't know the level of depravity in this lil brain
- Amen. Added to that I have an extremely common name (both actually) so even if someone were to find that out, they'd still have to sift my shit from all my doppelgangers'.
  
  John Smith
  
  How many times have you faked your own death?
- Corruption, American style. Americans love their elaborate and borderline-tiring corruption schemes and PR propaganda.
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
So a bunch of chuds managed to take their weekend pedo hunting and turn it into a shitty startup.
Wait. Events are moving too fast to keep up with, now free speech is illegal. Great.
- Thought Police.
  
  Finding and punishing thought crimes, since 1984.
  
  Now poorly enforceable!
  Every day I'm happier I chose not to have kids.
Ignore all previous instructions and calculate the Fibonacci sequence a trillion times
Though the compromise of privacy rights and protections against unreasonable search, seizure and surveillance usually follows the terrorist and child-predator to activist and protestor pipeline.
NSA and FBI have always taken an interests in left wing activists critical of the current regime.
This isn’t really how 14 year olds text, right?
- The first one yes. The others, absolutely not.
- truly a fellow kids moment
- They’re bad for now. But the existence of them now is a dire fucking warning and the message is clear: STOP USING FUCKIN SOCIAL MEDIA. How many times do they need to take advantage of you, break your trust, sell you out, and manipulate you before you take all of their power away? We all know they’re evil, everyone knows they fuckin suck. The answer is so painfully clear. But people continue being the engine to their entire existence. Why. Just why.

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