Comment by mapt
2 hours ago
Would you use an AI service knowing that they are inclined to turn you in to police if they detect illegal activity?
In a "three felonies a day" universe?
2 hours ago
Would you use an AI service knowing that they are inclined to turn you in to police if they detect illegal activity?
In a "three felonies a day" universe?
Yes.
But that service is a process on MY computer, loaded into RAM, with an abliterated model.
I don't trust 3rd party networks from abusing any data I give them.
> Would you use an AI service knowing that they are inclined to turn you in to police if they detect illegal activity?
The appropriate question is whether I want to live in Florida. This is much more a Florida law problem than an AI company problem.
It would apply if you happened to use Office 365 to write your diary.
Sadly, this isn't a Florida problem.
I don’t live in the US. But this kind of broad law is hard to implement without surveilling all users, and it has multiple side effects.
What happens if I use Claude or ChatGPT to research sensitive social topics? Would that be considered a social network interaction and used against me when I apply for a visa?
Many governments (especially in Latin America) copy what the US does, meaning that similar laws will be pushed sooner or later.
> What happens if I use Claude or ChatGPT to research sensitive social topics?
Anthropic/OpenAI is not obligated to report your use, as long as it's not violating some terribly written law (like the Florida law). The government won't know about it, so no, you will not be denied a visa.
> Many governments (especially in Latin America) copy what the US does, meaning that similar laws will be pushed sooner or later.
I honestly don't know, but I suspect most US states don't have such an overreaching law.
Legally they have to.
Would you use a lawyer knowing they are inclined to turn you into the police if you talk about committing a crime in the future?
The law is the law.
We should be happy about this as for once the AI companies did the right thing.
This is slippery. Many people do all of their journaling inside of Google or Apple cloud products. Some even write up their intentions to do bad things.
Does all writing now have to be scanned for thought crime?
That's an interesting wrinkle that is rather tough to work through.
To me, journaling your intent in a private journal, whether that's an Apple Journal/Note or a Moleskine in your drawer, feels qualitatively different in some way. But I'm not sure why.
So "I'm going to shoot up the police station" written in your own journal feels somewhat different than "I'm going to shoot up the police station" said to a system that might be able to _interpret_ or _act_ on what was said in some way. Did I just give AI a legal duty, or even a soul I didn't think it had before? I've written up about three or four "what about this, what about that" and deleted them all.