"When tech bro evangelists sell the world on the productivity accelerating power of the technological terrors they've constructed - despite their sad devotion to the large-language hype train not helping them conjure up measurable productivity gains - they hype cancer cures and a future without junior associates. Instead, they've built a Robo-Diary for dumb criminals to write, "will I go to jail for smashing up these cars?" It's a slightly slicker Magic 8-Ball and all it cost is a 267% increase in electricity prices."
"The ChatGPT exchange began around 3:47 a.m. on Aug. 28, about 10 minutes after the vandalism allegedly ended. In the chat, the user - identified by the SPD as Schaefer - described damaging vehicles and asked if he could go to jail. The statement includes multiple excerpts in which the user admitted to "smash(ing)" cars, referenced MSU's parking lot and made violent statements. The statement says ChatGPT urged the user to "seek help." The messages stopped later that morning."
Tech promoters hype large-language models as productivity tools while those systems can also record casual confessions and insecure exchanges. A Missouri teenager is charged after police recovered phone location data placing the device near the vandalized parking lot and later near his apartment. Investigators also recovered a ChatGPT conversation begun about ten minutes after the alleged vandalism in which the user described damaging vehicles and asked whether he could go to jail. The AI replied by urging the user to seek help. The chat excerpts and timestamps formed part of the evidence used in the investigation.
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