Florida woman used Claude as a diary, Anthropic reported her to police

A Florida woman, Carli Michelle Heller, used Claude as a diary and allegedly wrote on September 26 that she planned to attack the Sheriff's office. Anthropic's safety systems flagged the entry, a human reviewer deemed it a credible threat and reported it to law enforcement. Heller was detained without incident and faces a second-degree felony charge of making a written threat of violence under Florida law.

• Heller wrote about attacking the Sheriff's office on September 26
• Anthropic reported the entry to police after human review
• Charge is a written threat of violence, a second-degree felony
• Anthropic says it shares user data only in limited emergencies