Man Jailed In UK’s First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged by AI Chatbot::Jaswant Singh Chail was sentenced to prison for 9 years for attempting to assassinate the Queen after discussing the plan with an AI companion.

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    9 months ago

    Hopefully during those 9 years he’ll get the mental health treatment he needs. Kid sounds like he has some deep psychiatric issues that have been untreated for a very long time.

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      9 months ago

      At the end of the article it says he’s being held at a mental hospital until he is well enough to serve his sentence.

      Fuuck.

      I get it but this reads as:

      Be mentally unwell Get seduced by chatbot to commit treason Get caught receive the help you need to be a stable human Spend 9 years in prison Get released as a mentally unwell individual

  • Андрей Быдло@sh.itjust.works
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    Jaswant Singh Chail, who was 19 at the time of his arrest on Christmas Day, 2021, scaled the walls of Windsor Castle’s grounds with a mask and a loaded high-power crossbow. He said his intent was, as a British Sikh, to assassinate the Queen in a Star Wars-inspired plan to avenge the 1919 Jallianwalla Bagh massacre, a colonial-era atrocity during British rule in India. Prosecutors said that Chail was encouraged to undertake this plot after discussing it at length with an AI-powered chatbot that egged him on and bolstered his resolve.

    So he actually wasn’t late and he wanted to snipe her with a x-bow. On X-mas. I’m struggling to imagine what could’ve happened if he succeeded and we woke up to these headlines.

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    9 months ago

    AI highlighted like this when there are many many multiples of people, with and without.mental health problems doing equally dumb things on the back of social media encouragement. Kyle Rittenhouse being just one example.