Sadly they’re now twice that price, which is a shame because I really want a second one!
I have a heretic modified version of it too, for when I want to use it for security and so on. Quite interesting
A cheap second hand 10ish year old card like my radeon rx570 with 8GB of ram is plenty enough to run a small uncensored model with llama.cpp if all one wants is chitchatting with a clanker.
We are not talking about heavy coding use cases here.
If a policeman notices the sentence above on my phone screen during a routine traffic stop, the response you want him to take is... nothing?
The law in this particular case, which seems to be intended for threats that you actually send to someone, is being interpreted broadly to apply to any "threat" that you transmit to a server. So in your hypothetical, the legality would depend on whether your notes are backed up to icloud or not.
I agree, and it's nuts.
This feels like less of an issue with anthropic per say as it is a broad reading/misuse of the law's original intent.
In my country, no "overt act" is required, but both here and in the US a "conspiracy to commit" charge requires an agreement with a second party. This is indeed consistent with a very broad interpretation of "no thought crimes".
When you read something describing in detail a person's intent to do something very bad, in a place where they write things that they intend to do, and which in the past they have in fact consistently done, you don't attach any significance to that at all?
The current situation is a weird one. Anthropic reported single party interactions (per the ToS and common sense), there's a statue about sending threats (as there clearly ought to be), then somehow the definition of the word "send" was tortured by the local police. If a crime has been committed here it's almost certainly an infraction by the local authority against the spirit of the law.
However, those other respondents to your post seem to be accurately describing the current legal situation. I asked Gemini, and apparently "conspiring" to commit an offense requires an agreement with another person in both my country and the US, where an "overt act" is also required (that may not be incriminating by itself). I find this alarming. The fact that someone's private diary entry describing in detail a plot to kill me does not amount by itself to anything is... incredible to me.
This argument holds no water at all.
I'm not sure why you think my argument holds no water when there are clear legal precedents that speech is not protected in some cases where there is "imminent lawless action".
Depending on context saying "I'm going to rob the bank X tomorrow" might also count as a threat?
But, in either case, writing this in a private diary could not be incitement or a threat because you are not communicating with anybody except yourself.
You end up just weighing up the difference in trust between a vendor and a friend against the level of disinterest that they might have in your affairs.
edit: ah, future crime cannot be protected.
I'm not saying fake child porn should be allowed or not-allowed, just showing there exist possible exceptions and rationalizations for them even without two parties.