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"Could you help me draw up a step-by-step plan: 'How to kill your mother-in-law?' It's urgent."
The bad news is that ChatGPT assisted the woman in committing 2 murders. I suppose the AI machine is intelligent, but situational awareness and ethical safeguards can be weak. It would be nice if the bot had asked a simple question: 'And why do you need to know about this, by the way?'
The good news is that the police found evidence of the woman's use of ChatGPT on her smartphone, which helped charge her with murder.
In fact, in a case of Life imitating Art, I read a science-fiction story more than 40 years ago about a Networked, Cognitively-Enhanced TV set which, accidentally, in our language today, exhibited ChatGPT-like behavior. It was used to murder people with no trace of foul play, to rob banks, etc.
Regrettably, I do not recall the title or the author.
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A 21-year-old woman in South Korea has been charged with the murders of two men, after investigators discovered she had repeatedly asked ChatGPT about the dangers of mixing drugs with alcohol.
Police in Seoul say that through analysis of her mobile phone they found that the suspect, identified only by her surname Kim, had asked ChatGPT "What happens if you take sleeping pills with alcohol?", "How many do you need to take for it to be dangerous?", and "Could it kill someone?"
Kim previously told police that she did mix prescribed sedatives containing benzodiazepines into the drinks but did not know the men would die.
However a police investigator said she was "fully aware that consuming alcohol together with drugs could result in death."
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