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The Florida statute requires that it be transmitted in a manner that can be viewed by another person. If you have no idea that someone could view your communications with a chatbot, did you really intend to break that specific law? Technically, that threat was communicated to another person but not through her own intentions.
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What if she mailed it to herself through the post, and her housemate accidentally opened the mail?

Then they are both innocent of their 'crimes' as they were both unintentional.

She wouldn't have intended her housemate to open it, so it wasn't a threat.

And her housemate didn't intend to open it, so it wasn't Obstruction of Correspondence. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1702




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