Ohh wow.
"They used ChatGPT for writing and coding, including to answer basic questions and complete assignments they struggled with themselves. They preferred Google Gemini for image alteration and document forgery."
That's from an investigation into North Korean IT workers - people whose salaries help fund Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program (~$800M in 2024 alone, per US Treasury).
So let's apply the DOJ's logic from the Tornado Cash case:
@Google and
@OpenAI know their tools are being used by DPRK operatives. They've known for years. They keep providing the tools and profit from every subscription.
Facilitating crime?
Enabling it?
Founders in prison?
Sounds absurd, right?
Yet that's exactly the theory behind USA v. Roman Storm: build a neutral tool, bad actors abuse it, and the developer gets prosecuted instead of the criminals.
If that logic is absurd for Google and OpenAI - it's absurd for Roman Storm.
You prosecute the criminal, not the toolmaker. Writing code is not a crime.
So let's be consistent: subpoena every Google and OpenAI employee. Dig through their text messages for any hint they knew their tools were used by DPRK. Indict them for 20 years in prison on IEEPA charges.
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