Comment by quadhome

16 hours ago

It is unlawful for any person to send, post, or transmit, or procure the sending, posting, or transmission of, a writing or other record, including an electronic record, in any manner in which it may be viewed by another person, when in such writing or record the person makes a threat to: (a) Kill or to do bodily harm to another person; or (b) Conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.

— via https://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Disp...

The DA is serious about "in any matter."

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codingdave  5 hours ago

> in which it may be viewed by another person

To me, that is the more interesting legal question. Does a LLM-based safety net that sends content to a human, when the original use case would not have sent it to a human, count as "may be viewed by another person". It certainly wasn't intended to be, and that isn't the norm. At the same time, because no security is perfect, we could say that any digital record, stored in any way "may be viewed by another person."

Something for the courts to sort out, of course.

  • Symmetry  4 hours ago

    The usual thing that makes laws against criminal conspiracy pass First Amendment muster is that the words have to be combined with some concrete acts furthering the criminal conspiracy. That might just be something as otherwise innocuous as looking up the blueprints of the bank you talked about robbing but it has to be something other than just talk.

dotancohen  16 hours ago

Is the LLM now "another person"?

  • serial_dev  15 hours ago

    The other person is not the LLM, rather the service provider’s employees.

    > may be viewed by another person

    Was it viewed by another person? Yes.

    • wildzzz  4 hours ago

      So a written threat only becomes a crime when someone reads it, even if you never intended for anyone to read it? Is it a crime if I make a threatening statement in a diary and someone breaks into my house and reads the diary?

  • elil17  16 hours ago

    I suppose since Anthropic's T&Cs allow them to have a person read your chats, that makes it violate the law. Of course, if Anthropic didn't have that in their T&Cs, it wouldn't have been illegal to write.