Would you use a lawyer knowing they are inclined to turn you into the police if you talk about committing a crime in the future?
The law is the law.
We should be happy about this as for once the AI companies did the right thing.
Does all writing now have to be scanned for thought crime?
To me, journaling your intent in a private journal, whether that's an Apple Journal/Note or a Moleskine in your drawer, feels qualitatively different in some way. But I'm not sure why.
So "I'm going to shoot up the police station" written in your own journal feels somewhat different than "I'm going to shoot up the police station" said to a system that might be able to _interpret_ or _act_ on what was said in some way. Did I just give AI a legal duty, or even a soul I didn't think it had before? I've written up about three or four "what about this, what about that" and deleted them all.
The appropriate question is whether I want to live in Florida. This is much more a Florida law problem than an AI company problem.
It would apply if you happened to use Office 365 to write your diary.
I don’t live in the US. But this kind of broad law is hard to implement without surveilling all users, and it has multiple side effects.
What happens if I use Claude or ChatGPT to research sensitive social topics? Would that be considered a social network interaction and used against me when I apply for a visa?
Many governments (especially in Latin America) copy what the US does, meaning that similar laws will be pushed sooner or later.
Anthropic/OpenAI is not obligated to report your use, as long as it's not violating some terribly written law (like the Florida law). The government won't know about it, so no, you will not be denied a visa.
> Many governments (especially in Latin America) copy what the US does, meaning that similar laws will be pushed sooner or later.
I honestly don't know, but I suspect most US states don't have such an overreaching law.