Police Using AI Personas to Infiltrate Online Activist Spaces, Records Reveal

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By BeauHDApr 17, 2025, 11:30 pm253 pts
samleecole shares a report from 404 Media: 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,"…

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