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What makes it even more Black Mirror is that the chatbot was from a service called Replika, which (ostensibly at least) creates an AI simulacrum/avatar of the user, trained by feeding it their conversation history/social media content.
And that service has its own macabre backstory: https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot
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AI endorses assassinating the monarch?
Given the available information it would have been fed, I'm not surprised that a violent insurrection is it's logical conclusion and I have a newfound confidence that our networked overlords are a force for good.
To the barricades!
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" A man who planned to assassinate the late queen with a crossbow drew encouragement from an AI chatbot in the days before breaking into the grounds of Windsor Castle, the Old Bailey has heard.
Jaswant Singh Chail, who was 19 at the time, also exchanged thousands of often sexually charged messages with Sarai, his AI girlfriend, before scaling the fence to the royal estate on Christmas Day 2021, the court was told. "