Another example of a ChatGPT prompt used as evidence in a trial: this suspect's ChatGPT prompt questioned whether "someone could be held at fault if a fire was caused by cigarettes".
He's accused of starting the Palisades fire which destroyed 17k homes & killed 30 people.
29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht has been arrested and accused of starting the fire that became the most destructive blaze in LA history, destroying much of the wealthy Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
Investigators used his ChatGPT history as part of the evidence, including a prompt asking whether someone could be held at fault if a fire was caused by cigarettes.