Podcaster faces up to 70 years and a $3.5 million fine for ChatGPT-linked stalking.
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ChatGPT hyped up violent stalker who believed he was “God’s assassin,” DOJ says
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Kinder Surprise Eggs are banned, but a global-scale piracy entreprise promoting terrorism, murder, and suicide is cool. Make it make sense.
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Wow, bet this guy is a hoot at a singles bar.
"I want you to have my baby, you filthy, sinning whore!"
I hope whatever sentence he's given includes a vasectomy. This is the classic example of someone who should not contribute to the gene pool.
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Imagine if, when these thoughts first started, this guy went to a therapist instead of having all of this craziness amplified by a computer program.
LLMs are a menace.
LLMs are a menace.
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So an LLM trained on data that inevitably included gutter incel garbage winds up encouraging an incel and validating his views. Color me surprised.
Edit: This is not the first time chatbots have fed into peoples' god complexes, and it certainly won't be the last.
Edit: This is not the first time chatbots have fed into peoples' god complexes, and it certainly won't be the last.
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The incel was on the wrong platform, X/Grok and the like were probably more appropriate to express his "Christian faith" in finding a wife while thinking all women are trash.
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But AI is becoming a PHD-level expert in everything you guys!
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The gross sycophantic responses that it gives are a problem. The way that it's built based on mass-scale content theft is a problem. The way it encourages people to do awful things is a problem.
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The gross sycophantic responses that it gives are a problem. The way that it's built based on mass-scale content theft is a problem. The way it encourages people to do awful things is a problem.
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OpenAI did not raise all of that money on the promise of their Criminal-Responsibility-Obfuscater 9000™ out of the goodness of their hearts.
"Not having to take responsibility" is the whole point
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He hates women, harasses them, stalks them, doxxes them, threatens them with violence, and sexually assaults them, and somehow can’t figure out why he can’t get a wife? I shudder to think of the hell his wife and family would have gone through if he had managed to find a wife.
This man had serious problems before his encounter with ChatGPT, but that doesn’t excuse them for throwing gasoline onto the fire.
This man had serious problems before his encounter with ChatGPT, but that doesn’t excuse them for throwing gasoline onto the fire.
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Do we have chatbots that remind people "hey, I'm not human" yet? Can we program them to be less-agreeable, like "no, you're not a god, and here's the number for a good therapist"? Even -if- that's possible, I still don't see why we're building data centers with all that money. Let's train therapists instead. Also, pay the teachers and save the whales.
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If someone said "want to see a dead body?" and then posted a picture of your mom, after previously disclosing her PII, you wouldn't have a problem with it?
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It's not only possible, a lot of companies add them as behavioral guardrails and for transparency reasons. Go to the big retailers and start asking its chatbot inappropriate questions and it will start telling you that what you are asking is inappropriate and that it's not a real person.
Hell, you even see this with Grok, when you ask about Elon Musk.
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Inside you are two wolves: one of them is misogyny, and the other is chauvinism. Sometimes they knife fight! The "male loneliness epidemic" jokes really do write themselves.
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What about the last few decades of Capitalism leads you to believe this about responsibility?
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There's a lot of reasons why law use objective or reasonable person standards instead of subjective standards.
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I think you need to have some deep-seated fuckedupedness to end up quite like this character, but chatbots are a brain poison. I've never once interacted with one, and I have no intention of ever doing so, because I recognize that my brain is a human brain and these products are vicious and powerful drugs.
Yeah, maybe I could be one of those people who can do a bump or two of cocaine and not end up hopelessly addicted or dead, but I'm not inclined to find out. I'll just skip the cocaine, thanks.
Yeah, maybe I could be one of those people who can do a bump or two of cocaine and not end up hopelessly addicted or dead, but I'm not inclined to find out. I'll just skip the cocaine, thanks.
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WWJD?*Ashley Belanger said:
...Did I miss a book?Ashley Belanger said:
* What Would Jesús Do?
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I stick by my principle:
If it’s a crime for a person, it should be a crime for a chatbot.
Encouragement of suicide? Conspiracy to violate protection orders? Company is liable. Exec suite jail time should be on the table for felonies.
If it’s a crime for a person, it should be a crime for a chatbot.
Encouragement of suicide? Conspiracy to violate protection orders? Company is liable. Exec suite jail time should be on the table for felonies.
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And the punishment for violating this ban is checks notes to continue doing so with impunity. Great policing everyone.
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For your edification, there is no non-threatening way to interpret that exchange.
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Having a strong influence on the weak-minded wouldn't be so bad if the bot were actually judicious about it.
If it had just given the suicide kid the pep talk and this guy the rundown about how Kurt Cobain is the ultimate alpha chad that chicks dig it could have solved, rather than caused, two problems.
If it had just given the suicide kid the pep talk and this guy the rundown about how Kurt Cobain is the ultimate alpha chad that chicks dig it could have solved, rather than caused, two problems.
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In what world is this a common turn of phrase???
I would interpret it as a threat, but that is going to be one of the questions for the jury, whether a reasonable person would have found this defendant's behavior and statements as threatening.
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"Hot springs infernal," maybe?
I mean, I can easily see someone saying "This comes straight from Hell," and the response from the CEO of any AI company is "Everyone should bathe in this."
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Everyone gets a take out of this. Spotify gets its ads, chatgpt gets its money (assuming he's a poweruser), this guy keeps getting the flames fanned by awful people being awful. There is no good person in this whole story. I never get the whole "restraining order" thing. It's a legal document that says no contact or whatever but unless it is actually enforced no one cares. Or it's enforced after the crime.
There needs to be a higher way to make sure that no contact includes no mention of the person, or that information must be scrubbed (get the method of assault involved as a part this), or prevent using the restraining order as a tool that the restrained uses to promote themself and make them the victim because the restrainer "felt scared" (/s). Dude. You are a monster.
There needs to be a higher way to make sure that no contact includes no mention of the person, or that information must be scrubbed (get the method of assault involved as a part this), or prevent using the restraining order as a tool that the restrained uses to promote themself and make them the victim because the restrainer "felt scared" (/s). Dude. You are a monster.
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It’s because the law, while deeply flawed, does not believe that every single comment and action arrives devoid of context and unconnected from all of history or other events, statements, behaviors and actions.
If I posted “you wanna see a dead body” while quoting a photo of someone, yeah that’s an unsettling bit of free speech quoting a common meme.
If someone who has half a dozen restraining orders against them, and a legally recognized history of disturbing, explicit threats of violence and murder posts a photo of someone and says “you wanna see a dead body”, those are in fact, legally different things.
Much the same way as they would be legally different if I said that to your face, or said that to your face while holding a gun.
Again, the law is flawed, and it’s application even more so. But it is not a toddler lacking object permanence.
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... none of which makes any sense applied in this context.
You're literally trying to tell us he's just an excitable boy. There's a reason Warren Zevon wrote songs like that. Like, maybe the guy who makes a career out of loudly and vocally hating and harassing women was actually a danger to women the whole time?
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