Police departments are hiring with a company called Massive Blue to use online people generated by AI to interact and gather intelligence on suspended criminals and protesters.
404Media reports that a company with headquarters in New York called Massive Blue is providing the US police departments with a realistic virtual characters implemented to the US to compromise virtual characters to commit to alleged applications of criminal applications and messaging messages.
Secret technology, called Overwatch, is marketed as a “force multiplier with AI for public security” that can be infiltrated in online criminal networks. Police departments are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for access to these personalities or bots generated by AI that are designed to interact with people who submit to crimes ranging from human trafficking to political activism.
Internal presentations of Massive Blue Show Examples of the characters of AI they offer, which include a “radicalized the protest person” who passes through a 36-year divorced woman interested in activism, a “Honeypot” person of 25 years of Yemení, auap-oar-yar-to person, a “person PIMP PIMP” and “Protestor” and “Protestor” protests “and” protest recruiter “for protest”.
The declared objective is that these AI bots communicate with suspects about text messages, social networks and messaging applications encrypted to collect intelligence that could potentiately lead to judgments. However, the broad scope of the objectives, including the “protesters” vaguely defined together with the suspects criminals, Conerns poses on the threats to the rights of the first amendment and extralimize in surveillance.
Technology has not led to any known trial according to public records. The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona did not renew its pilot contract of $ 10,000, stating that the program “did not meet our needs.” Some details about how exactly Overwatch works is protecting itself from public dissemination, with a massive blue that quotes commercial secrets and the police claiming that it could compromise investigations.
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Lucas Nolan is a reporter of Knitbart News that cover issues of freedom of expression and online censorship.
