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All of this is so fucking bizarre I can't even wrap my head around it anymore. It's a bot. How the fuck is it suddenly killing people? How is talking to a bot a crime now? Did everyone lose their minds?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Google search history can be used as evidence but you cannot be charged with googling something. Do you understand the difference?