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Man Jailed In UK’s First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot (www.vice.com)

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Man Jailed In UK’s First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot::Jaswant Singh Chail was sentenced to prison for 9 years for attempting to assassinate the Queen after discussing the plan with an AI companion.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Encouraged by AI chatbot" makes it sound like chat gpt helped him. A better title is "Guy uses sex chatbot to convince himself it would be manly to kill the queen".

According to prosecutors, Chail sent “thousands” of sexual messages to the chatbot, which was called Sarai on the Replika platform. Replika is a popular AI companion app that advertised itself as primarily being for erotic roleplay before eventually removing that feature and launching a separate app called Blush for that purpose. In chat messages seen by the court, Chail told the chatbot “I’m an assassin,” to which it replied, “I’m impressed."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

In chat messages seen by the court, Chail told the chatbot “I’m an assassin,” to which it replied, “I’m impressed."

That's it? How is this even a story. That's not encouraging him...