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

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235 points colinprince | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 13:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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lawlessone ◴[17 Apr 25 14:36 UTC] No.43717502[source]▶
>I-powered bots across social media and the internet to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protestors” with the hopes of generating evidence that can be used against them.

so what if the bot radicalizes them?

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1. ceejayoz ◴[17 Apr 25 14:47 UTC] No.43717697[source]▶
"Yay, we get to invoke the Insurrection Act!"

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867467714/what-is-the-insurre...