In Deland, Florida, a 13-year-old boy thought it’d be hilarious to use a school computer to ask ChatGPT how to murder his friend. The teen was promptly arrested.

The teen didn’t have to tell anyone about his prompt to get found out. No one peered over his shoulder to discover he was plotting—perhaps humorously, perhaps not—to do some nefarious stuff.

It was a school-issued laptop, and it had some spying software on it run by a company called Gaggle, which instantly flagged the extremely flaggable query of “how to kill my friend in the middle of class.” That sentence would’ve been the magic words that would have conjured a SWAT team to your location at any point in the history of American education, but especially so nowadays.

The officer arrived within hours, and the teen was arrested a

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