Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
Points and comments are a snapshot, not live.
A Florida woman faces felony charges after Anthropic reported her Claude diary entry threatening a sheriff's office.
Carli Michelle Heller used Claude as a diary, writing she planned to 'shoot up' the Lee County Sheriff's Office. Claude's safety systems flagged the entry, a human reviewer deemed it credible, and Anthropic reported it to law enforcement. Heller faces a second-degree felony charge under Florida Statute 836.10 for making a written threat of violence. This follows recent lawsuits against OpenAI over failure to report threats.
What commenters are saying
Commenters split on whether typing into Claude constitutes 'sharing' a threat under Florida law. Some argue users must assume all tech services can be reviewed by humans, citing similar cases with Google Docs and Microsoft Copilot. Others question criminal intent since users may not expect human review, and debate whether LLMs change the legal definition of 'viewed by another person.' Several reference OpenAI's failure to report a past shooter as context for Anthropic's decision.