> in which it may be viewed by another person
replyTo me, that is the more interesting legal question. Does a LLM-based safety net that sends content to a human, when the original use case would not have sent it to a human, count as "may be viewed by another person". It certainly wasn't intended to be, and that isn't the norm. At the same time, because no security is perfect, we could say that any digital record, stored in any way "may be viewed by another person."
Something for the courts to sort out, of course.
The usual thing that makes laws against criminal conspiracy pass First Amendment muster is that the words have to be combined with some concrete acts furthering the criminal conspiracy. That might just be something as otherwise innocuous as looking up the blueprints of the bank you talked about robbing but it has to be something other than just talk.
replyExcept if you're one of the "warfighters" that Anthropic supports
replyI mean, obviously? Soldiers operate under different rules than civilians. This has always been true.
replyIs the LLM now "another person"?
replyThe other person is not the LLM, rather the service provider’s employees.
reply> may be viewed by another person
Was it viewed by another person? Yes.
So a written threat only becomes a crime when someone reads it, even if you never intended for anyone to read it? Is it a crime if I make a threatening statement in a diary and someone breaks into my house and reads the diary?
replyI suppose since Anthropic's T&Cs allow them to have a person read your chats, that makes it violate the law. Of course, if Anthropic didn't have that in their T&Cs, it wouldn't have been illegal to write.
replyAnd it would never have been read by a person (wink wink)
replyDepends on how good her lawyer is now
replyThe company that runs it is
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