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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: 0.291s | 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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sc68cal ◴[17 Apr 25 14:44 UTC] No.43717646[source]▶
The FBI already grooms young men and provides fake explosives for them to do terror attacks, so they can arrest them. They start by talking to them online so all this is doing is making the process cheaper and larger scale
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_fat_santa ◴[17 Apr 25 14:56 UTC] No.43717853[source]▶
From a purely law enforcement perspective this blows my mind. Rather than fighting crime, they are generating crime to them fight it. It would be like an SWE intentionally creates a bug and then fixes it in the name of "making the system bug free"
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1. imtringued ◴[17 Apr 25 17:41 UTC] No.43719989[source]▶
This is the Shirkey principle.

"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

Another way to interpret it is via the savior complex or self licking ice cream cone.