Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online.

AFP commissioner Krissy Barrett revealed the plan in a Wednesday in which she discussed “decentralised online crime networks and loosely affiliated individuals in Australia and offshore who are glorifying crime online, such as sadistic online exploitation, cyber-attacks and violence.”

“While these networks do not have a centralised hierarchy or a single ideology, they are prolific and are attracted to violent extremism, nihilism, sadism, Nazism and satanism,” she said. “They are ‘crimefluencers’, and are motivated by anarchy and hurting others, with most of their victims pre-teen or teenage girls

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