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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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darknavi ◴[17 Apr 25 14:57 UTC] No.43717868[source]▶
Can you imagine what would happen if we used the same resources to talk people down instead of rile them up?

Some people get sent down a dark path and finding someone to pull them up out of it can really help.

Instead I'd guess that these programs can likely drive them deeper and over the edge.

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1. pixl97 ◴[17 Apr 25 17:38 UTC] No.43719968[source]▶
>to talk people down instead of rile them up

Well then, police budgets would go down! And if police budgets go down then you are less safe!

Having no crime is more dangerous for politicians then some baseline of crime. If there is no crime they can't run on a hardball anti-crime platform and ignore everything else. If you run into a situation where there is no crime, it's easy enough to go invent some, generally focused at the young and poor.