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So, how does artificial intelligence help here? While we don't have exact details, AFP says it’s developing a “prototype AI tool that will interpret emojis and Gen Z and Alpha slang in encrypted communications and chat groups,” according to commissioner Barrett. It would likely have to be a multimodal natural language model (NLM) designed to interpret semantics as distinct, individual units, then use context awareness to determine whether something is an actual clue or just harmless slang.
For instance, the skull emoji traditionally represents death or murder, but these days on the internet, it’s gained more notoriety as “dying of laughter.” The pizza emoji could literally mean pizza — or, in some circles, act as code for a drug drop. This is where language embeddings come into play. If the model sees “(pizza) drop tonight?” paired with a blood emoji or certain slang terms, it could separate ordinary messages from ones actually worth flagging.
To achieve this, the AI would need to be trained on a lot of open-source social media data from platforms like Instagram and TikTok, along with internal datasets from previous investigations and synthetic chats constructed to mimic online behavior. With transformer-based NLP models like BERT, it could gradually learn how meanings shift over time and, in turn, recognize when an emoji or slang phrase actually signals something dangerous.
Since these groups have no unified leadership but share common interests in violence, nihilism, and sadism, with some of them even being Neo-Nazis, simply tracking down the people in charge is not going to reveal the chain beneath. The community has no center, so it has to be monitored on an individual basis, treating every possible threat with the utmost caution, and quickly working to prevent it.
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