Evidence has shown that ChatGPT was used for instructions on how to build an explosive device and set it off with a pistol, one officer said.
Police have provided an update on the man responsible for the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas, including that he used ChatGPT to help plan the attack and that he left behind a six-page manifesto touching on political grievances, societal concerns, and personal struggles.
During a press conference on Jan. 7, officials with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) revealed new details about the New Year’s Day blast.
Kevin McMahill, sheriff of the LVMPD, said that Matthew Livelsberger, a former Green Beret who detonated the Cybertruck with himself inside, left behind a six-page manifesto in addition to several letters that were reported on earlier.
While the sheriff said police were choosing not to release the full manifesto at this time, several excerpts from it were revealed during the press conference, including Livelsberger’s determination not to be captured alive, along with his intention not to harm anyone in the explosion besides himself.
“As much as the MSM [mainstream media] will paint me out to be some terrorist and monster, I had no intent on taking out anyone but myself,” reads one of the excerpts from the manifesto. “I am deeply sorry to anyone that gets hurt. I served my country for my entire adult life, and I got caught up in some craziness and have outrun my headlights.”
Livelsberger also wrote about his intent to make the incident “as public as possible,” in part to send a message of grievance about what he said was a meaningless military engagement in Afghanistan that pointlessly claimed the lives of his brothers-at-arms.
“We failed, and the credibility of military and political leadership was shredded when no one was held accountable,” he wrote, adding that the violence he witnessed and took part in as a soldier “replay in my head every day, all day, and it has ruined my relationships with my family and friends. I am now a shell of a human being with nothing to live for, it has all been taken away by my affiliations.”
By Tom Ozimek
