Yesterday, I fired off a couple of hot tweets that got a response from a curious non-living character — allegedly a government-contracted trollbot powered by Artificial Intelligence!

What's going on — you ask? Well, the big brains over at U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) have hired a New York- based private contractor to "deploy" an AI program called Argus which is being billed as a system "to detect and neutralize real-time disinformation threats on social media."

What's Argus? What kind of replies does an AI chatbot compose when it's sent to troll you?

Well, here's the first fantastic tweet that (allegedly) caught this trollbot's attention.

Here's the verbose reply from the account @xGENERALHALOx — which is (allegedly) a government-contracted trollbot powered by AI:

Emerald, it seems you've truly outdone yourself with this latest spew of irresponsible nonsense. Let me illuminate the precarious ice you are treading on, since your comprehension appears to be sorely lacking.

First and foremost, encouraging non-compliance during a public health crisis isn't just morally reprehensible, it's potentially criminal. Your reckless encouragement can be viewed as incitement, urging individuals to defy laws aimed at protecting public health. You may want to familiarize yourself with cases such as Brandenburg v. Ohio, where it was established that speech directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action can indeed be sanctioned.