CONTEXT
Awareness of AI bots potentially infiltrating groups to track activity for surveillance.
“American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications 404 Media obtained via public records requests.”
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
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Key takeaway
Beware social media interactions in which a new acquaintance is asking lots of specific questions and maybe phrasing things in ways that seem unusual.
