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A Florida Woman Deployed Claude as a Diary. An Anthropic Employee Read It and Logged It to Police
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A Florida woman said she uses AI like a diary.
Key facts
- Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, was arrested after investigators found she wrote on Sept. 26 that she would “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, according to the local WINK News
- The San Francisco Standard reported in September that Anthropic referred a user to police after he allegedly wrote that he had bought an AR-15 and had CEO Dario Amodei in his crosshairs
- OpenAI’s own August 2025 policy post routes threats against others to human reviewers who may refer them to law enforcement
- The arrest report says Anthropic’s platform monitors for key phrases and threatening content
Summary
Investigators say Carli Michelle Heller wrote on Sept. 26 that she would "shoot up" the Lee County Sheriff's Office, and said the next day that she had a new gun. According to the arrest report, Anthropic's safety systems flagged the entries and a human review team reported them to law enforcement. Anthropic's consumer terms reserve the right, at its sole discretion, to report a user's inputs to law enforcement. Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, was arrested after investigators found she wrote on Sept. 26 that she would “shoot up” the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, according to the local WINK News. The arrest report says Anthropic’s platform monitors for key phrases and threatening content.