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The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI
OSINT used to be a thinking game. Now it’s becoming a trusting game and that should terrify you.I’ve seen it firsthand, analysts running solid investigations, then slowly shifting more and more of the thinking to GenAI tools. At first, it’s small. You use ChatGPT to summarise a document or translate a foreign post. Then it’s helping draft your reports. Then it’s generating leads. And eventually, you’re not thinking as critically as you used to. You’re verifying less, questioning less, relying mo
We build context from chaos: tweets, photos, forums, leaks, metadata, satellite images, dead links, weird file names. You feed a stream of Telegram messages into ChatGPT and ask for “summary and patterns.” It flags some keywords, but misses the subtle linguistic shift that points to a known Russian influence cell, something only a trained mind would notice by comparing phrasing across sources. • Read a social post in broken Russian, translated it manually, checked slang, looked up associated hashtags, and verified the account’s activity history.
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