r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 14h ago

Artificial Intelligence Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
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u/hockeyjmac 14h ago

All of the dumbest people you know ask ai literally everything.

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u/OrneryLavishness9666 14h ago

A c-suite executive at a worldwide, billion-dollar fast food brand speaks about the conversations they have with Claude like it’s a completely normal thing to do. Like they’re just bouncing ideas off a colleague or friend.

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u/idgetonbutibeenon 14h ago

I’m 100% convinced ChatGPT and Claude are managing OpenAI and Anthropic via Altman and Dario

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u/AttonJRand 8h ago

That's the exact kind of conspiracy attitude, ascribing greater abilities to this tech than it posses, that has us in this mess in the first place.

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u/idgetonbutibeenon 3h ago

To be clear, I think both companies are being grossly mismanaged

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u/blueSGL 13h ago

Anthropic is the cult of Claude

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u/12345623567 9h ago

When you are at that level, all the people you talk to are NPCs anyways. What's one more?

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u/MrBootyPops 6h ago

Why is this weird tho? It’s a whole new world change. I remember when ‘online friends’ used to be deemed creepy and now it’s totally normal to meet and make a bunch of friends online. Speaking to AI is a lot more fulfilling than speaking to humans as well, and that gap is only going to get wider.

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u/Urgulon7 13h ago

And they take the first answer as cited scientific fact or historical truth.

We are fucked.

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u/bagoink 7h ago

Was on my way home from the airport the other day, and someone asked me for help finding a public transit line to where they were going...they kept looking at their phone and were very confused by what I was saying.

They were asking ChatGPT for directions. Not a maps app. ChatGPT.

People's brains are being irrevocably broken by this stuff.

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u/Venomswindturd 7h ago

Not really much different than the dumbest people you know doing the same with wrong information prior to the LLM boom. If we're "fucked" we've always been.

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u/PM_Best_Porn_Pls 11h ago edited 7h ago

I'm so confused reading this thread. People are seriously concerned about AI company knowing their chat logs like it's private conversation between 2 humans, what the fuck do these people write there and how much do they use it that it's worrisome.

Like it's been always known that if you do "how to commit crime" google searches you can be reported to police, it's pretty much same situation here.

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u/ch4os1337 11h ago

Imagine being in 2026 thinking any unencrypted conversation is private.

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u/DigNitty 10h ago

I call them “artificially intelligent”

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u/ch4os1337 11h ago

I've found success using that trust in LLMs to unbrainwash some people.

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u/IntelArtiGen 14h ago edited 14h ago

Well for people who are very dumb it can't make things worse I guess. Can it?

Maybe if they use AI for illegal activities I guess. I imagine an AI could tell someone to not do an illegal acitvity. Like we obviously see the opposite because it's the worst case, but it would be interesting to know if AI has prevented crimes in some cases (not by reporting user activity but directly in the conversation). Would people who commit crimes commit less crimes when they use AI? Or maybe more?

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u/Any_Conflict_5092 13h ago

It can make things much worse.

Dumb people in psychosis can be quite dangerous, especially if they have unresolved emotional damage, and a propensity to anger or violence.

Their families are the most likely to pay the price - and that's even if they don't kill them (most people experiencing psychosis DON'T actually kill anyone, but they can lash out and harm folks, if they feel frightened or threatened).

Edit : they can also cause financial harm, commit arson, you know - the whole range of bizarre shit that people not in their right minds do.

This can also happen to smart people. I was just addressing the fact that, actually - people are sliding into psychosis from interacting too heavily with AI, and this trend is really problematic.

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u/IntelArtiGen 13h ago

But it would be interesting to have stats on the whole population. Because clearly AI does what you say and is used for bad things or it makes things worse for some people, but is there an opposite side of people reasonably using it for example to avoid getting crazy? Which would absolutely not solve the problem you're talking about, it's just to know if people with problems or dumb people can find ways to use it correctly. And if people without problems or smart people can get more problems or be more dumb because they use AI. And is there a purely linear correlation, or maybe people using it 20 minutes per day are ok and people using it 6 hours per day have more problems. And does the result depend on the age, gender, job?

A lot of work has to be done on all this I guess.

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u/bluesydragon 14h ago

Im not dumb but i ask it too :/ its nice getting advice tbh and info but def a huge privacy concern esp for mental health reasons. Its like talking to a therapist without the protections

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u/Mathesix 14h ago

No one that is dumb believes that they are dumb.

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u/saradanger 14h ago

it’s nothing like talking to a therapist and cannot “give advice.” please talk to real people.

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u/NeonMirage88 14h ago

Sorry dude but talking to an AI is literally nothing like talking to a therapist not even remotely close.

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u/SeanBlader 14h ago

Um, when you're dumb you're not smart enough to know it.... Dunning-Kruger. So if you're not "dum" you don't have to say it, or you do say you're dumb. Both Einstein and Hawking admitted they didn't know things, even inside their field of expertise at times.

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u/yxing 11h ago

I wouldn't use AI as a primary therapist just like I wouldn't use reddit as a sounding board for rational discourse on AI

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u/PM_Best_Porn_Pls 11h ago

You are certainly not "not dumb" if you think chatbot is viable therapist to feed personal info to.

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u/EaseHappy0 12h ago

I agree, after having enough therapists who didn't really care. Everyone here seems to be so comfortable calling other people dumb, that's what made me leave anti-AI crowd for good, the hate. Even though I was one of the first to join because I'm an artist.