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/11nyn11 14h ago

That hasn’t worked in a while

https://www.yahoo.com/news/3rd-man-charged-threatening-volusia-172507985.html

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u/OG_LiLi 14h ago

Talk to me. I read that entire thing and don’t see the correlation. I also haven’t had coffee.

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u/johnny_riser 14h ago

One of the suspects (Richard Golden) was arrested even though his 4chan threat ended with "In Minecraft".

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u/iPukey 14h ago

That’s not a 1:1 of what’s being suggested here. AI reporting you or not reporting you based on ending something illegal with “in Minecraft” is a completely different thing than a human being reading a 4chan thread and making a judgment call.

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u/Then-Understanding85 13h ago

A human  reviewed the entry and made the judgement call here as well.

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u/iPukey 13h ago edited 13h ago

Ah I see. I was referring to the person saying that adding “in Minecraft” hasn’t worked in a while, who was themselves responding to someone making a joke about the line being used in general, not the specific situation in the post. There is no example given by the person who said “that’s why you always add ‘in Minecraft’”.

My understanding was the point of adding “in Minecraft” was to fool AI, thus when someone says “that hasn’t worked in a while,” and then posts an article where it’s a human who caught it on 4chan…

but that’s also maybe not the 100% correct interpretation of the situation regardless now that I’m forcing myself to really break it down. Just seemed like an odd disconnect.

I thought I’d get like one or two people to engage with me tops. To have double digit downvotes made me think I had said something bad without realizing it.

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u/Then-Understanding85 13h ago

There’s no satisfying, logical reason you got downvoted. Reddit is mostly vibes.

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u/iPukey 13h ago

Was less worried about the downvotes themselves and more worried about being understood and making sure I wasn’t implying something I didn’t mean. But yeah.

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u/yxing 12h ago

I'm assuming you're getting downvoted because it looks like you're missing the joke in your original comment, and reddit hates it when people miss jokes.

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u/AmandaTheNudist 14h ago

I get what you're saying, Richard Golden got arrested because humans looked at his 4chan threat and determined that he was, in fact, not talking about activities in the game of Minecraft. Whereas an AI is far more likely to take the qualifier "in Minecraft" at face value and think you're really talking about Minecraft.

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u/iPukey 14h ago

Yeah that’s pretty much exactly what I’m saying. Is there some other way I’m being interpreted? Why the down votes?

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u/Tokey_TheBear 14h ago

Theres a thing on the internet where people will say things that they mean seriously but if its against TOS for the site they are on or it is illegal, they will say "In Minecraft" at the end to sort of add the plausible deniability that: "Oh I didn't actually mean that, I meant that I was going to go do XYZ in Minecraft! Therefore you can't take what I said seriously because I added in Minecraft at the end."

That case is an example of that scenario except in this case the person got charged even though they had In Minecraft in their post.

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u/Derangutan 11h ago

And will most likely be thrown out in court.. beyond reasonable doubt and all that.

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u/greg19735 8h ago

That's not how "beyond reasonable doubt" works though.

saying "I meant it on minecraft" is the same as just saying you're innocent. Doesn't mean you are.

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u/goldcakes 2h ago

No shit lol. "I'm going to blow up the base with TNT in Minecraft" is obviously one thing, adding "in Minecraft" in the end is another.

One time I had a flight cancellation and long layover, and the only game I had installed was CS1.6. So I hooked up to the free airport wifi, plugged in my headphones and mouse, and started playing some de_dust.

It took about 10 minutes before a police officer kindly pointed out that my speakers were also on, and I have been playing "BOMB PLANTED!" and "TERRORISTS WIN!" in an airport terminal. Didn't get searched or anything, just told to turn my speakers off lol.

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u/11nyn11 14h ago

Good answers so far.

The OP is a Florida Woman who threatened the sheriff.

The link I have is a man who threatened a sheriff and added “in Minecraft” to his statement.

Over the past decade or so people have jokingly said things like “I’m going to eat all your bread …. In Minecraft” to make an edgy statement into a joke.

This doesn’t work.

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u/bacon_cake 10h ago

Reddit's perception of AI is very out of date.

The obsession with "hallucinations" only proves that. If you're working with relatively accessible data the models don't hallucinate anywhere near as much as they used to, and if they don't know the answer they will usually tell you.

It's not far different from Wikipedia back in the day.

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u/11nyn11 10h ago

Bot or lost Redditor 🤔

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u/PerformerDr4867 5h ago

They’re still telling the strawberry joke like it isn’t insanely dated 

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u/Fallcious 3h ago

I don’t agree. Here is a good article on the subject and talks a bit about why AI systems make things up.

https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2026/01/05/its-2026-why-are-llms-still-hallucinating/

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u/dotcaIm 13h ago

Thanks for providing source

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u/zx9001 7h ago

They would still have to prove that there was an intent to harm IRL, and not just gamer trash talk. Otherwise everyone who's ever played a video game could be thrown in jail

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u/11nyn11 7h ago

Did you read the article?