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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 | 2 comments | 17 Apr 25 13:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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duxup ◴[17 Apr 25 14:10 UTC] No.43717122[source]▶
I wonder what happens when bots find other suspects are bots ... deploy more bots? More security?

Not unlike the situation where undercover cops ended up surveilling other undercover cops...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/28/secrets-and-...

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potato3732842 ◴[17 Apr 25 14:16 UTC] No.43717204[source]▶
There's less than zero incentive to prevent any of this because both agencies can use the make-work to justify their budgets and the vendors make out like bandits.

And we all pay for it.

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1. duxup ◴[17 Apr 25 14:57 UTC] No.43717869[source]▶
With bots it seems even more automatic.

Whole system could be just billed on "usage".

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2. potato3732842 ◴[17 Apr 25 15:58 UTC] No.43718707[source]▶
They'll never go for it because the plausibility of their "we're doing something" pretext is what justifies the entire racket. Paying them to go away wouldn't accomplish that goal.