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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 | 6 comments | 17 Apr 25 13:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.422s | source | bottom
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giantg2 ◴[17 Apr 25 14:34 UTC] No.43717469[source]▶
I wonder how much of this will just encourage protests and radicalization. If your agent is trained to match a profile of a radical, then it necessarily is spreading and encouraging that radical messaging in order to fit in and gain trust. At least with real agents there is a plausible mechanism for their judgement to filter out who is targeted and they can't infinitely propagate like the AI could.
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1. apercu ◴[17 Apr 25 14:59 UTC] No.43717896[source]▶
I don't know, the time to be out on in the streets throwing rocks was ~25 years ago. It might be too late now (mass surveillance and a fascist-wanna be government).
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2. 0xEF ◴[17 Apr 25 15:47 UTC] No.43718568[source]▶
The only time it's too late to resist totalitarianism in its various forms is when you're dead.
3. thih9 ◴[17 Apr 25 15:52 UTC] No.43718635[source]▶
Hello, land of the resigned.
4. moate ◴[17 Apr 25 15:54 UTC] No.43718653[source]▶
"More friends, bigger rocks, help defeat our enemies" is basically the basis of all of human civilization, so look to the wisdom of your ancestors.
5. i80and ◴[17 Apr 25 16:38 UTC] No.43719229[source]▶
"Fighting fascism is a full time job!"

— Lieutenant Shaxs

6. red-iron-pine ◴[17 Apr 25 17:11 UTC] No.43719656[source]▶
don't bring a cell phone, wear a mask, wear different shoes to change your gait, STFU -- none of these are hard.