Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat

timpera

Original reporting (not available outside the US): https://www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/florida-woman-arres... Archive link: http://archive.today/mwico

fagnerbrack

The design of theverge.com is now completely unreadable

zeroCalories

Should have vented to your Chinese chat bot

EvanAnderson

HN discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961057

dylan604

I'm thoroughly confused on why someone would type this into a chatbot. Was the chatbot on the sheriff's website and that's what was being used? Was the person using their on their end on getting advice on how to phrase it better? Then again, people willing to make these comments aren't people that I tend to understand or empathize with anyway, so using a chatbot shouldn't be something I should expect to understand either.

skarz

What is that page? It looks like a "tweet" on The Verge which just links to the actual story.

sega_sai

So we have a situation when if AI hacks into something, nobody is responsible, but if you say something inappropriate to the AI, then you can be arrested. That is interesting ...

IncreasePosts

New meta unlocked: Popping onto your frenemy's computer and typing out a quick threat to chatgpt

1-6

Better openweight models can't come fast enough.

iso1631

Shame this wasn't in America where freedom of speech prevails. Which part of the UK is "Florida" in?

cucumber3732842

This is just the same unequal treatment under the law that you see every time the government is involved in anything. God knows how many thousands of reports like this these platforms send out in a given week. Nobody is following up on some peasant scheming up ways to kill his brother for stealing his inheritance or whatever. But you threaten some local bureaucrat or politician and the cops will jump at the chance to knock on your door and "remind" you who has all the power.

ChrisArchitect

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961057

jakzurr

So I read TFA, read comments, then figured out the "details" were in the gulfcoastnewsnow.com link, inside TFA. If the police report described there is accurate/complete (who knows?), what the person said is a bit scary. Invasion of their privacy (going to police)? Yes, but possibly warranted? Should a social worker have contacted them rather than the police? Probably, if for no other reason than to ask if they were serious about harming someone. Difficult questions, I'm still undecided on whether it's OK to always ignore someone's rants.

tygon

I cannot help, but liken this to precedents such as Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California. Because of this case, therapists have a duty to warn police if a patient shows clear intent to cause harm in the future. "Duty to Protect" is definitely controversial however and there is a balance to be struck. We also know tons of kids and trolls will just "say edgy stuff to bots for the lulz" that they would not say to a human therapist as well. Where do we as a society draw a line between privacy and protection? It's not an easy question to answer.