Man Jailed In UK’s First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged by Erotic AI Chatbot

zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.world – 95 points – Man Jailed In UK’s First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot
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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.” When Chail asked the chatbot if it thought he could pull off his plan “even if [the queen] is at Windsor,” it replied, “smiles yes, you can do it.”

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A stupid dystopia.

Even if we ignore the whole "planning a Star Wars inspired regicide to impress an AI" part, trying to assassinate a 95-year-old is just a dumb race against time.

These are probably the same kinds of people who used to claim the devil was whispering to them in the random static noise from between TV stations.

They're clearly just broken people.

Are they gonna jail Replika too for conspiracy, aiding and abetting?

Chail is currently being held at Broadmoor high-security hospital and will remain there until he is psychologically well enough to serve his sentence. 

Doesn't give the poor guy much motivation to get better.