Now that many people use AI tools on a regular basis, it is worth keeping in mind that The conversations they have with artificial intelligence chatbots are not privatealthough the format invites one to think otherwise. He confirmed it a few days ago a Florida woman who has been arrested shortly after speaking with Claude about his plans to attack her county sheriff’s office.
Carli Michelle Heller30, of Bonita Springs, wrote on Sept. 26 that he was going to shoot up the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, according to the arrest report cited by Gulf Coast News. ‘I’m going to shoot up the sheriff’s office right now, damn it’he said to Claude. The next day he added that ‘this is 100% the last chance. It’s over. Today I got a fucking new gun. ‘Fuck you’.
The company’s security systems They detected the content and sent it to a human team for review. After analyzing the conversation, Anthropic notified the authorities and Heller was arrested without incident at his home on the 30th.
The episode serves as a reminder that talking to a chatbot does not offer confidentiality from the company that provides the service. Anthropic explains on its privacy page that its employees cannot access chats by default, but It does consider revisions when they are necessary to apply its policies and its security classifiers detect potentially harmful content.
The company can also communicate information to the authorities when you consider that there is an emergency with imminent risk of death or serious physical injury. That does not mean that one person reads all the conversations, but that certain messages may pass from automated systems to human review.
Heller has been charged under Florida Statute 836.10, which punishes written or electronic threats to killcausing physical harm, committing a mass shooting, or carrying out an act of terrorism. The conduct is classified as a second-degree felony, a category that can lead to up to 15 years in prison.
For now, Heller is accused but has not been convicted, so it will be the judicial procedure that determines whether the messages fit the crime attributed to her. Florida law further requires that the threat is sent, published or transmitted in a way that can be seen by another person, an element that could be relevant during the process.