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

3 years ago by zero_gravitas to c/nottheonion

Jaswant Singh Chail was sentenced to prison for 9 years for attempting to assassinate the Queen after discussing the plan with an AI companion.

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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PurpleTentacle 19 points 3 years ago

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.

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