Chatgpt Image Snares Suspect in Deadly Pacific Palisades Fire
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ChatGPT was used to identify a suspect in a deadly Pacific Palisades fire by analyzing an image, highlighting the potential use of AI in crime investigation; the story received little discussion on HN, with users not raising significant concerns or debates.
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There's no copyright for AI generated imagery, but there is liability?
If AI is pure thought, is any crime manifest through AI a pure thought crime?
A man who had ideations of a disaster gets anxious when interrogated by police about such thoughts.
The bulk of the evidence comes from a personal machine that is a capsule for the holder's thought as it relates to activity. If the machine is a truly personally owned extension thought, then consider the implications of 5th Amendment. If the machine belongs to others, then what is their liability? And... troubling implications (thoughts) should come to kind about surveillance, authority, and liberty.
The wording of the article suggests using Uber is subject to routine background checks... a number of troubling implications (thoughts) should come to kind about surveillance, authority, and liberty.
//Among the thousands of structures destroyed in the fires were the homes of a number of celebrities, including Mel Gibson, Paris Hilton and Jeff Bridges.//
This paragraph about losses of celebrities bookends a point about "closure and justice for those affected" by a disaster that was as much about failures of emergency mgmt as the emergency event, with an orientation towards scapegoating.
There are a number of other interesting features of this story which loom over the future of personal tech.