The law seems overly broad with "may be viewed by another person". Most of these laws have the intent of not causing public panic with regards to posts that others may see, not stuff that one assumed was private. This is further supported by the definition of threat, which is generally defined as requiring malicious intent.

I would think a good lawyer could get this charge dropped. I would like to see what judge approved the warrant and how they felt the elements were met.

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If only the woman hosted open-weight model in her house.

The reaction of the tech community to this story is extremely strange. If you type some sort of serious credible threat into a Saas platform, or post it on a message board or upload it as user generated content into any tech platform that is hosted in a “normal” country (by which I mean US, EU, Australia, UK, New Zealand, Canada and many other jurisdictions), your threat will very likely be reported to the police.

This isn’t a new phenomenon and it certainly isn’t an AI thing, it is a long-term policy posture that we as a society hold tech platforms accountable for serious threats that they are able to help to prevent that is implemented in a swathe of different legislation around the world, but it’s everywhere. This is clearly a privacy vs safety tradeoff and you can have all sorts of opinions about that, but this has been the case for a very long time (certainly since 2001).

Now different tech giants have different levels of competence at policing content on their own platforms but they all do it. As I say this is absolutely not anything to do with AI except to the extent that the AI companies are probably paying more attention to what is typed into their platform because they are using it to develop their models and the whole “AI safety” debate is evolving rapidly. But that’s merely a difference of degree.

I don’t understand, the Florida law is about making threats and announcing them in public. But discussing this with an AI isn’t the same as posting them to Facebook

This is practically entrapment. All the AI labs sure don’t shy from plastering annoying disclaimers everywhere saying their tool can make mistakes. Shame on them for not also reminding everyone continually that anything you submit can and will be used against you. Of course they can’t afford to have a Flock-style user revolt.

Not weighing in on the privacy issue but using Ollama you can run a smaller agent like Qwen 3.6 35b a3b on a sufficiently potent laptop. Pair it with something like Hermes for a nice interface and you have more than you might need for diary like usage.

I can’t believe people are using these proprietary models/subscriptions as personal assistants, sending their most personal context, thoughts, documents and information to the providers. Some even give them full disk access. After using their services for long enough, Anthropic/OpenAI essentially have your entire life mapped out to an insane level of detail, likely including detailed contents of your computer/phone.

People used to say that Facebook knew more about you than your closest friends/relatives. And compared to that, this is just on a completely different level. Absolutely insane.

Does anyone know if Anthropic are notifying the user when something gets flagged for human review?