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/jacobjer 12h ago

Since we’re being technical, it was his brother’s wife who read the phrasing in the Washington Post and alerted her husband.

He then thought the similarities were too much to ignore and then reluctantly called the FBI office.

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u/jmbirn 10h ago

it was his brother’s wife

Yes, and as it happened the wife was a professional ethicist, so she may have played a large role in helping her husband decide to report his own brother.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 10h ago

Good thing they lived in a town with a big ethics factory

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u/snackers21 9h ago

Technically, it was an ethics mine not a factory.

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u/koleye2 8h ago

It's only an ethics mine if it's in the Éthique region of France, otherwise it's a sparkling moral quarry.

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u/the_pretender_nz 7h ago

Or in Northern Ireland, a sparkling moral quan-derry

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u/dontpostfromthis1 1h ago

the brits insist on calling it a quan-londonderry

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u/Puglady25 8h ago

🏆That was fantastic sir! Take my poor ladies award!

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u/Datsoon 6h ago

Damn well done

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u/Haughty_n_Disdainful 8h ago

laughs in ethics cliff diver…

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u/Desert-Noir 6h ago

And the town over they have a joke and cum mine

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u/TheGhostofWoodyAllen 4h ago

Technically it was a philosophy mine, and ethics just so happened to be a lucrative byproduct of the philosophy mining.

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u/jmbirn 8h ago

Yes, the local ethics factory was called Union College.

(The UB's sister-in-law was Professor Linda Patrik, a professional ethicist and philosophy professor at Union College in Schenectady, New York.)

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u/Stargazer-Lilly7305 8h ago

Can I get a hallelujah!!

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 6h ago

The first time I visited Union my friend came down to open the front door with an enormous bud of weed in his teeth.

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 9h ago

The wife was a woman, which didn't sit well with the Unabomber. He was an extreme misogynist who would go on epic rants about women (and the wife in particular), which is a big reason the brother's wife was so familiar with the Unabomber's "style". If he had kept some of his rage to himself, he may have avoided capture, or at least avoided capture for a good while longer.

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u/hopehallucination 2h ago

Yep, let's turn everything into some gender war bullshit. Exactly what the powers that be want us to do.

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u/Prof_Outis 9h ago edited 8h ago

I wonder how she feels about seeing all of her brother-in-law's predictions and fears coming to pass? Like, even if he was wrong about his targets, the stuff he was trying to prevent still sucks, and she has to have to wondered if he was right after all.

edit: I'm wondering about the reading comprehension of some of you. Unibomber was a bad guy. He was also afraid of very real things. When a crazy person is right about some bad things and those bad things he ranted about come to pass, it's human nature to question whether he was right about other things and whether the ends might have justified the means. And an ethicist would very much question the ethics of such a Faustian bargain.

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u/-LsDmThC- 9h ago

Are you being serious? Any number of his claims could be true without it validating his resulting actions. None of what he did served to prevent what he was arguing against.

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u/Nielsly 8h ago

He was never going to prevent anything you think he wanted to prevent by killing these people, she most likely did not care in the slightest and I find it disconcerting that you have this many upvotes

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 6h ago

Holy balls take some reading comprehension classes.

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u/Wise-Relative-7805 7h ago

-And- she and his brother shared the one million reward. Unabomber was right about technology in quite a few ways. That does not even enter the dialogue?!

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 9h ago

What's that subreddit, "I'm 14 and this is deep"?

That's the Unabomber fandom in a nutshell.

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u/Puglady25 8h ago

No, he was a psycho. Didn't he also accidentally kill mail room workers or postal workers? Plus all those CEO's have a conference room of sociopaths, waiting to take the spot.

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u/Thorngrove 11h ago

No wonder he wrote that letter about hating her right out the gate before he even met her.

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u/Bahamabanana 10h ago

Bet he wanted to eat her cake and have her.

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u/PaladinSara 8h ago

Yep - listen to women!

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u/FuneralFanny 19m ago

His sister in law. Why say “brothers wife”?