Jess Weatherbed
AI bot personas may be undercover police.
404 Media reports US police departments are utilizing Overwatch — an AI tool that “deploys lifelike virtual agents” to “infiltrate and engage criminal networks” — to collect incriminating evidence against anyone from suspected drug and human traffickers, to “radicalized” political activists and “college protesters.”
One example of a “radicalized” AI persona that developer Massive Blue says it has created is one pretending to be a 36-year-old child-free divorced woman, described as outspoken, lonely, and body positive. Her hobbies include baking and, vaguely, “activism.”
