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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago

“When I asked ChatGPT, it said that if I transferred stolen money to an account tied to my losses, and if I was then caught for theft, police would naturally investigate the fraud along with the theft.”

One thing I've noticed is that AI in general expresses a delusional level of trust in established authorities.

[–] Bot@sub.community 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The furniture made me do it!

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

“Video games made me do it.”

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Epp@lemmus.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's a strange set of circumstances.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I'd agree, but the platypus won't let me.

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

The devil made me do it

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ok but the FBI literally entraps people all the time. How is it substantially different if instead of a guy being paid to try to get you to shoot up a church or synagogue its like a chatbot agent telling you to steal cards?