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Man who exploded Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI, police say
WFTV ^

Posted on 01/07/2025 2:34:25 PM PST by nickcarraway

The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday.

A laptop, cellphone and watch are still under review nearly a week after 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger fatally shot himself just before the truck blew up.

An investigation of Livelsberger’s searches through ChatGPT indicate he was looking for information on explosive targets, the speed at which certain rounds of ammunition would travel and whether fireworks were legal in Arizona.Kevin McMahill, sheriff of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, called the use of generative AI a “game-changer” and said the department was sharing information with other law enforcement agencies.

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KEYWORDS: livelsberger; nevada
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1 posted on 01/07/2025 2:34:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
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“the use of generative AI a ‘game-changer’”

Oh, come on! He would have found all that info with simple Google searches, no “generative AI” needed.

Maybe in the future we can instruct autonomous kill bots to make fully automated, unmanned terrorist attacks. But not in 2025.


2 posted on 01/07/2025 2:36:55 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: nickcarraway

Sure did. Sounds like another weak excuse to have more surveillance on Americans.


3 posted on 01/07/2025 2:37:46 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: nickcarraway

If that’s the government’s position then that’s not what happened.


4 posted on 01/07/2025 2:38:29 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Obviously.


5 posted on 01/07/2025 2:38:40 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: nickcarraway

ChatGPT makes so many factual errors that I wouldn’t trust it for anything. I’ve only used the website, but it gets even simple things wrong.


6 posted on 01/07/2025 2:40:58 PM PST by FreedomForce
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To: nickcarraway

I guess that 2nd video from a different angle showing his head upright, intact, and moving before the explosion doesn’t factor.


7 posted on 01/07/2025 2:44:50 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: nickcarraway

I will admit that I fell for this whole thing.

It did seem a little odd that we knew so much about him and I have always had an “off” feeling about Shawn Ryan but this story seemed legit to me.

Now that they are using this situation to scare us about the boogey man of AI, I am fully out.

This is a psyop- 100%


8 posted on 01/07/2025 2:48:34 PM PST by nitzy (Everything makes sense once you realize that we don't rule over ourselves and our rulers hate us.)
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To: nickcarraway

Have they identified the body yet? The Whitewash Bureau is working overtime this New Year.


9 posted on 01/07/2025 2:50:17 PM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: nitzy

Who is Shawn Ryan?


10 posted on 01/07/2025 2:54:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

the cyber truck also uses ai technology...


11 posted on 01/07/2025 2:56:53 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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That’s the guy who said Livelsberger sent him an email saying the NJ drones were CHICOM antigravity powered wonder weapons, and he’d be killed for exposing them.


12 posted on 01/07/2025 3:01:01 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Anyone who use the phrase Game Changer has outed him/herself as being on the payroll of either Russia or some OpenAI wannabe.

It’s as annoying as verbing and upspeaking.


13 posted on 01/07/2025 3:03:16 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Maybe in the future we can instruct autonomous kill bots to make fully automated, unmanned terrorist attacks. But not in 2025.

Dunno, the year is young...

14 posted on 01/07/2025 3:06:22 PM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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Not just AI but generative AI

Oh NO!!!

Lets ban computers !!!!!!!


15 posted on 01/07/2025 3:16:21 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: DoodleBob

“It’s as annoying as verbing and upspeaking”

Sustainable! Ugh!
Resilient!! Double Ugh!!


16 posted on 01/07/2025 3:17:23 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Marxism is a politics for the ugly, unwanted, uneducated, unhealthy, and insane.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I thought it was Sammy something who was a guest on Shawn Ryan’s show?


17 posted on 01/07/2025 3:22:08 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: nickcarraway
he was looking for information on explosive targets, the speed at which certain rounds of ammunition would travel and whether fireworks were legal in Arizona.

Pretty lame, IMHO. If he'd Goggled up "how to get rid of a body," then that'd be different.

18 posted on 01/07/2025 3:32:13 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: wildcard_redneck

The entire point of what he’s saying.


19 posted on 01/07/2025 3:56:33 PM PST by JimSp
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To: nickcarraway

AI providers have the ability to program “guardrails” into generative AI to prevent inquiries into how to perform illegal activity.


20 posted on 01/07/2025 4:17:06 PM PST by Fedora
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