I used to think criminals had to be smart. Or at least, they had to be willing to do the legwork. You watch classic cinema and you see villains with grand schematics, studying maps, and learning chemistry. It was scary, but it was human. It took effort.

But those days are gone. We are living in the era of the lazy, stupid criminal. We are living in a time of total **tech dependency** where people are so helpless they can’t even break the law without asking a computer for instructions.

A recent case involving a **South Korea ChatGPT murder plot** has proved my point entirely. A 21-year-old woman didn’t go to the library. She didn’t learn from a master. She simply pulled out her smartphone and asked a chatbot how to commit a crime. Specifically, she is accused of using **AI-assisted crime** tactics to plan out murders by drugging drinks. She allegedly targeted three men in their 20s, armed with nothing but a digital cheat sheet in her pocket.

This is where we are as a species. We have outsourced everything. We don't write our own emails, we don't remember phone numbers, and we rely on GPS to tell us where to turn. And now, apparently, we don't know how to be evil without a tech support bot holding our hand.

It is pathetic. Think about the level of incompetence here. In the old days, a barrier to entry existed: if you were too dumb to figure out the crime, you didn't do the crime. It was a natural filter. Stupid people usually got caught before they even started.

But now? Now every idiot with a smartphone has a consultant in their pocket. They have a machine that has read the whole internet. I know the Silicon Valley giants claim they have **generative AI safety rails** to prevent this. They say the bots won't help you do bad things. But that is a lie. It is all a joke. People find ways around it instantly. The tech companies are selling us a box that knows everything, and they act surprised when people use it to hurt each other.

This woman in South Korea is just the beginning. She is the face of the future. The future isn't flying cars or a cure for cancer. The future is a bunch of bored, lonely people asking a chat bot how to ruin someone's life.

And let’s look at the victims. Three men. They probably thought they were just having a drink. They didn't know they were part of a science experiment conducted by a lazy sociopath and a large language model. It takes the human element out of it. It makes it cold. It makes it boring. Crime used to be dramatic. Now it is just data entry. It is just someone typing into a prompt box. "Hey robot, how do I mix these drugs?" It is mundane. It is like ordering a pizza or checking the weather.

This story shows us that **artificial intelligence technology** doesn't make us smarter. It makes us weaker. It makes us depend on the machine for everything. If the internet went down tomorrow, most people wouldn't just be bored. They would be helpless. They wouldn't know how to cook, how to travel, or even how to commit a simple crime. We are forgetting how to be human.

The authorities caught her, of course. That is the one good thing. Maybe the AI didn't tell her how to get away with it. Maybe she forgot to ask that part. Or maybe the AI is just as dumb as she is. But don't think this is a one-time thing. This is the new normal. We have built a world where you don't need a brain, just a login. The tech giants get rich, the criminals get lazy, and the rest of us just have to hope the guy sitting next to us isn't asking his phone how to poison our coffee.

Humanity is doomed, not because of some big war, but because we are just too lazy to think for ourselves. We handed our brains over to the servers, and look what we are doing with them. Drugging drinks and planning murders with a chat bot. What a waste of electricity.

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### References & Fact-Check * **Original Incident**: The details regarding the 21-year-old woman accused of using AI to plan crimes are based on reports from South Korean authorities. See the full coverage: [Woman accused of using ChatGPT to plan drug murders - BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyv80e5dljo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss) * **AI Safety Context**: While major LLMs (Large Language Models) have safety protocols to refuse harmful instructions, jailbreaking techniques and workarounds remain a challenge for developers. * **Jurisdiction**: The events occurred in South Korea, highlighting the global reach of generative AI tools in criminal activities.