Sure the AI can't do five fingers or a hand, or give you song lyrics, but it can report you to the FBI over nothing!
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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...which do you think is more likely? That the programmers did their "due diligence" and set up the programme to flag record and report illicit asks? Cus I think its more likely that the code just generates an empty threat when you feed it certain prompts.
i mean even if it's a real threat the feds seem highly selective over who they actually pursue over stuff like google searches and tweets
but they do show up at doors or send a swat guy to burst through a window sometimes. I don't know how they select for that because there must be thousands or millions of threats posted online every single day.
I don't know how they select for that
You would think there'd be some kind of advanced points system where potential threats are logged and the most severe offenders are the ones they go and check out
But honestly from what I've seen of the US government being simultaneously more evil and less competent than you would ever believe, they probably go either completely at random or pick out "scary sounding" names manually
there's probably some of that because they don't knock on the door of everyone who buys a pressure cooker from amazon but there's probably a lot more 
Even if it is an empty threat and the feds wouldn't waste their time acting on it, the feds are probably getting the data anyway — we've publicly known about PRISM for more than a decade now
but it can report you to the FBI over nothing!
This has been the tech industry dream since the Windows 98 dialogue:
You have performed an illegal operation. This incident will be reported.
Looking it up it would seem my brainmush has merged the windows "program has performed an illegal operation" with the "not in sudoers file" error but that's how I remember it being in the TRUE timeline.
I got the creeping suspicion this was where we were headed when Google began putting that "help is available" header at the top of searches it thought were about self-harm.
I was looking up Suicidal Tendencies (the band) videos on YouTube the other day and it gave me a disclaimer.
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Typing this query into google causing Marco Rubio to revoke my citizenship and deport me to CECOT
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that song rules. leathermouth was a side project by one of the guitarists of my chemical romance. they only did the one album but it's a good one.
DuckDuckGo doesn't have the is problem. Neither does searXng