Originally published at: Man who was ordered by his AI girlfriend to break into Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow to kill Queen Elizabeth says he's sorry | Boing Boing
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“Replika claims to let users express themselves in a safe and nurturing way”
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They should never have made “the leprechaun that sits on Ralph Wiggum’s shoulder” a selectable personality for an AI girlfriend.
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He also tells Sarai he loves her and describes himself as a “sad, pathetic, murderous Sikh Sith assassin who wants to die”, the court heard.
Sounds like a pretty unhealthy relationship.
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It sounds more like he already had his heart set on this (for some reason) and his AI girlfriend was just being supportive of his terrible, terrible life choices.
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Sometimes you read a news story, and there’s a cool techno thing and you realize you’re living in a neat science fiction universe compared to where we were when I was a kid. This is not one of those stories.
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I guess it’s more original than saying that Trump told me to.
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… is this a pun I don’t understand 
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That reminds me of the warnings that came with certain products during the prohibition era that explained how NOT to accidentally make alcohol from them.
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When alcohol was prohibited in the US you could buy a ‘wine brick’ that came with instructions that warned what you should not do with it because an illegal alcoholic beverage would result.
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The queen died of natural causes, so isn’t the case moot?
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I don’t get the headline @frauenfelder . The posted snippet has the human saying he’s going to kill the queen, not the bot telling him to kill the queen.
I like you, but… oof.
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Yeah, I’m confused by this line.
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Also came to ask if there was some other meaning of the word ‘chail’ that I was completely unaware of. @frauenfelder
And as @robotmonkeys notes, the headline is NOT what happened. Perhaps ‘encouraged’ might have been slightly more accurate than ‘ordered’.
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Charlie Brooker must be feeling a bit redundant because Black Mirror is just writing itself now.
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Chail is the guy’s name.
“Natural causes” Yeah right. If you call a wooden stake through the heart “natural”.
What are the royals covering up? (I mean besides Prince Andrew.)
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Yes, I think we all know that - but it makes no sense in the sentence quoted UNLESS there is another meaning some of us are entirely unaware of
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It’s a typo. There’s nothing more to it than that. It’s not even grammatical,.
EDIT: A sentence ending in ,. What could it mean?
