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pcthrowaway • yesterday at 11:29 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

A woman who wrote a romance fiction novel called "How to Murder Your Husband" was convicted of murdering her husband

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101433465/how-to-murder-your...


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xrd • yesterday at 11:59 PM

Someday AI will kill someone. And, then it'll write a book about it.

It will do that because it read "How to Murder Your Husband" as part of its training.

I'm going to be very confused about how to feel about that.

When we arraign the AI, should there be two counts against it: stealing and murder?

Or, can it plead that "my daddy, Sam Altman, told me to read this, I was born into a moral void."

Plot twist: the judge will be AI from Russia.

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hefner1456 • today at 12:35 AM

She tried to poison him twice and he stayed with her. Now, thats ... uh ... love.. i think. She must have been one top notch narcissist to drag him along.

soundnote • today at 12:06 AM

Similar story for many rap albums. Quite a few rappers have rapped about murders and oops, turns out they really did do it.

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embedding-shape • yesterday at 11:38 PM

An essay it seems like, which wasn't included in the trial even:

> Crampton Brophy's how-to treatise detailed various options for committing an untraceable killing and professed a desire to avoid getting caught. Circuit Judge Christopher Ramras ultimately excluded the essay from the trial, noting it was published in 2011. A prosecutor, however, alluded to the essay's themes without naming it after Crampton Brophy took the stand.