Australian federal police will develop an AI tool to decode gen Z and Alpha slang and emojis in an effort to crackdown on sadistic online exploitation and “crimefluencers”.

The AFP commissioner, Krissy Barrett, will use a speech at the National Press Club on Wednesday to warn of the rise of online crime networks of young boys and men who are targeting vulnerable teen and preteen girls.

In a speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday, the newly appointed chief will outline the perpetrators, who are overwhelmingly from English-speaking backgrounds, are grooming victims and then forcing them to “perform serious acts of violence on themselves, their siblings, others or their pets”.

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“They are crimefluencers and are motivated by anarchy and hurting others,

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