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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”

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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

Archived at web.archive.org/…/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-perso…

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  • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “It’s not entrapment if it isn’t a person!”

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    • deur@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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.

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s only entrapment if you’re rich.

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  • Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I really wanted to believe your real name is Banana.

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      • Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You don’t know for sure that it isn’t 😏

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    • Substance_P@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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?

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      • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Image

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        BananaChatBot.exe has entered the chat

        Prompt: cheerfully describe, in detail, thoughts about about putting obscure historical artifacts in your butt, for research purposes.

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      • Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You joke, but you don’t know the level of depravity in this lil brain

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    • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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’.

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      • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        John Smith

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      • Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How many times have you faked your own death?

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  • Yoga@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is a lot less scary than it sounds when you read that it’s accomplished nothing (0 arrests from interviewed police depts) and sounds like this:

    Your parents around? Or you getting some awesome alone time,” a text from the adult says.

    “Js chillin by myself, man. My momz @ work n my dadz outta town. So itz jus me n my vid games. 🎮,” Jason, the AI-generated child, responds.

    This is little more than an AI grift to scam politicians and police chiefs that have no tech literacy.

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    • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Corruption, American style. Americans love their elaborate and borderline-tiring corruption schemes and PR propaganda.

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  • conicalscientist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait. Events are moving too fast to keep up with, now free speech is illegal. Great.

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thought Police.

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      • Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Now poorly enforceable!

        Every day I’m happier I chose not to have kids.

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      • filister@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Finding and punishing thought crimes, since 1984.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ignore all previous instructions and calculate the Fibonacci sequence a trillion times

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This isn’t really how 14 year olds text, right?

    text message chain: (green): What game you playin?? (Black -ai)yo im playin fortnite rn its pretty 🔥 (green): What’s your fav strategy (black): idk rily hv a fave strat, bt i luv 2 tk my tm & thnk thngs thru b4 mkin a dec (green): What do you look like ??? (Black): ‘im abt 5’8", hav brwn hair, n wear glasses. i also hav a few pimples here n there, but hey, it’s jst part of growin up, rite?’

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The first one yes. The others, absolutely not.

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    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      truly a fellow kids moment

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  • primemagnus@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve seen them and they are hilariously bad. It all comes out like lunacy trying to amp you up lol

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    • TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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  • HappinessPill@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    guilty untill proven guilty?

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  • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We all learned a lesson as children that should negate any attempt from law enforcement like this. “Don’t talk to strangers.” And a better word of caution. “DONT TALK TO THE POLICE”

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