Could this be considered free speech? Most of the limitations I know of require you to say it to or in front of other people as to create a panic or make someone feel threatened. Is it a crime to say to yourself "Im going to blow up New York." or about threats of self-harm? How about "Im going to steal the Mona Lisa!"?

To me this is just straight up thought crime, they just don't have a way to directly read your thoughts yet. But they will spy on you and try and catch you out for it.

> The communication must be made in a manner in which another person may view it

IANAL but it will be interesting to see how the legal system decides if this counts as "another person may view it" or not. What has happened in similar ish cases where someone writes a threat like that that they thing is private to them but actually ends up in the hands of Someone at some tech company that reports it?

These guys need to realise they aren’t the law, and they have no business with stuff like this. If I want to plan something bad I’ll use an ablated local model. Come on it’s sad to see how stupid the work is getting.

I expect that anything I type / dictate / post / purchase on the web be it a chat conversation with an AI, a post on social media, a dm, a blog post, a blockchain reference, or an assett in a bucket, will be manually reviewed and forwarded to the authorities. It is their duty to do so, and I am glad that they do. If this woman did harm someone we would be hearing "why didn't Anthropic do something about this."

I downloaded a copy of a movie I had previously purchased yesterday. Claude helped me remux it so I could play it on my TV. Will the FBI be knocking on my door tomorrow?

Who knew the way to avoid charges for stuff like hacking the Australian government and other similar institutions was to report another person for a different crime.

Florida statute 836.10 puts the bar at the "sending, posting, or transmission of, a [...] record, in any manner in which it may be viewed by another person"

I think the defendant could successfully defend themselves by claiming they did not know (or intend!) the message could be viewed by another person, as they were plainly using it as a private diary.

In Florida. Where DeSantis said "You loot, we shoot":

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/30/desantis-warns-hurr...