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/rickg 13h ago

I'm more concerned that most people still don't understand how things work and naively insist on putting their information into these things, Facebook, etc etc and then seem to be surprised that the data is stored.

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u/Hour_Wonder_9240 13h ago

There are also a lot of intelligent people who do understand very well. For the common man who doesn't understand I recall a quote that said something along lines that Americans may not know what's going on in their own house but they can smell when there's a body in the basement.

If we get the right intelligent people in charge I have hope.

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u/kyute222 1h ago

Remember when people posted these messages on Facebook directed at Zuckerberg that they don't consent to whatever terms of service they've agreed to on signup? Those same people now dump as much personal info as they can into LLM. You can only stop idiots from harming themselves so much, they'll always find a way.

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u/Few_Classroom6113 12h ago

Part of that is because it’s so esoteric, and you don’t know which otherwise harmless piece of information in the right context will end up biting you in the ass.

Like putting pictures of your kids online 10 years ago wasn’t the smartest thing to do. But back then it wasn’t a serious risk to have those pictures converted into sexually explicit images and spread around school yards or ill-intentioned adults.

And honestly some of the shit that I still have a hard time accepting I’ve put on the internet out there for anyone to do with as they please is now a standardized question on a fucking job application.

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u/rickg 11h ago

But it's not an esoteric concept at all and there have been thousands of posts, articles, videos etc telling people this.

The threat assessment does change as you note - pictures of kids 10 years ago was just a way to share with friends and family but now we know that there are other risks to that.

But the basic concept of "if you share information with an online service it's not private" hasn't changed.