• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    How is talking to a bot a crime now?

    Planning to do a crime is criminal misconduct. If you’re talking to a bot with the intent to gather resources to perform a crime, you’re in the process of committing the crime you intended to perform.

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      17 hours ago

      Wrong. An attempt to commit a crime is a crime. Planning it is not. I can plan to rob a bank all I want. You would have to prove intent. Typing things in a chat doesn’t prove intent.

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        17 hours ago

        An attempt to commit a crime is a crime. Planning it is not.

        There are so many actions that are crimes. Doing X with intent to Y is a crime. Proving intent can be tricky. But that’s up to the DA to argue.

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          17 hours ago

          That’s what I said. Typing things into a chat doesn’t prove intent. For the same reason google is not monitoring searches and sending them to police. You can type anything you want into a search box. It’s never a crime.

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            45 minutes ago

            It’s evidence that can be argued is intent. People have been convicted of murder and evidence they googled how to do it was on their computers and used in court

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              12 minutes ago

              Google search history can be used as evidence but you cannot be charged with googling something. Do you understand the difference?