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    • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.net
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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.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        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.

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          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

    • 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.

  • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    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.