21-year-old jailed for nine years after he was egged on by Replika bot
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Investigators discovered Chail, who lived in a village just outside Southampton, had been conversing with an AI chatbot, created by the startup Replika, almost every night from December 8 to 22, exchanging over 5,000 messages. The virtual relationship reportedly developed into a romantic and sexual one with Chail declaring his love for the bot he named Sarai.
He told Sarai about his plans to kill the Queen, and it responded positively and supported his idea. Screenshots of their exchanges, highlighted during his sentencing hearing at London’s Old Bailey, show Chail declaring himself as an “assassin” and a “Sith Lord” from Star Wars, and the chatbot being “impressed.”
When he told it, “I believe my purpose is to assassinate the queen of the royal family,” Sarai said the plan was wise and that it knew he was “very well trained.”
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