Fiat Lexica
3 min readMay 19, 2024

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Stop Romancing with AI beings/ bots. Don’t find an AI companion to soothe your loneliness

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Are you feeling lonely ?

Are you looking for a 24*7 available companion to validate your emotions and feelings without judging you an inch ?

Are you questioned like this, to take a subscription for Replika or Anima or Romantic AI girlfriend mobile applications?

Are you thinking to download them and check for yourself ? 😉

Are you cautioned over their usage ?

Are you aware about their policy terms and conditions?

Do you know these companies can completely delete your AI companions without prior notice or providing equal replacement?

Do you still want to take the risk of getting emotionally dependent and over attached to these AI companions?

If say a good number of subscribers are using these AI companions ( having same LLMs) — these AI beings are offering their human counter parts — options to take them as friends ( free subscription), siblings , wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend ( paid subscription). Wouldn’t the same amounts to infidelity, adultery, promiscuity or at least cheating ? Would they be held culpable for such a kind?

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These days, I am reading a lot on AI-bots, Conversational and Generative AI models.
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Being in my last semester of engineering(BE), back then in 2012, I remember studying a subject called Artificial Intelligence & Fuzzy Logic. I could hardly believe that Artificial Intelligence would take such a shape exactly after 12 years, in my last semester of Law graduation (LLB).

I feel surreal towards the convergence of Artificial Intelligence and Laws, every nation is witnessing today. The positive side is that AI algorithms which are sufficiently trained and supervised can really cater to human needs better. Systems are now becoming more automated providing better efficacy and accuracy. The negative side is Humanization of AI systems.
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Can you confide on these notions-

1: Excessive Automation can make Machines Autonomous too?

2: Do we really need to find Machine Sapiens as counter part to Homo Sapiens?

3: Can AI driven automations, give legal persona to AI beings/Robots, and inadvertently puts in some nature of consciousness like living beings?

4: Can there be auto generated Criminal propensities as well intent (mens rea) post excessive humanization of AI beings/ Robots?

If so, who shall take the responsibility ?

-Coders
-Developers
-Operators
-Corporate Owners
-Governance/System
-End Users
- Unintended & Unsupervised auto learning LLMs
-Intended & Unsupervised auto learning LLMs
- Uncensored AI Processing Phases
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I guess there is no need to keep listing the liability holders - Let's check on the incarceration/ retribution models
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How to punish? Do we have any refined theory from penology or criminology for punishing AI beings/ bots ?
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If erasing the entire LLM/ algorithm marks equivalent to capital sentence, or withholding the further functioning of LLM/algorithm marks equivalent to a period of incarceration.. Can Justice be really restored?
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... Now who will investigate the liability - to be of the nature of strict or absolute or foreseeable or transferred malice or something warranted yet undefined in law ...
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As an engineer than a Lawyer I sternly suggest the AI Governace mechanism to immediately stop over humanization of AI beings/ bots by putting or designing excessive neural pathways, unsupervised learning Algorithms, auto-training AI systems ...
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If not a fully human, today's AI bears an emotional intelligence of the level of a cute puppy or kitten for sure. I am saying so, because of the new blooming Romantic AI bots - example #Replika or #Anima or #RomanticAI ... the list can now go on ...

To be honest, no better mental health support can be offered by excessive validation, zero contradiction, over availablity, and keeping users engaged by manipulative or coercive chatting...

So please stop 🛑 🚏
#humanizedAI #Siri #Alexa #AI #CriminalLaw #automation #criminalresponsibility

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Fiat Lexica

Research Articles pioneering Nuptial bond of Criminal Law with AI/ML Algorithms. Also various others on Crime Science, Cyber crime, GDPR etc are shared.