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/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?