In a bizarre and compelling development to his legal woes, former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown is using artificial intelligence to deflect a severe charge of attempted murder, and that artificial intelligence is none other than ChatGPT.
The rapper Brown, who is currently out of the country in the Middle East, has yet to surrender to authorities in Miami, where he is wanted over claims he shot a gun at a man during a scuffle at an Adin Ross-hosted boxing bash. The purported victim has told police that Brown fired at him with no warning, initial police reports said. Brown, however, claims he was the one assaulted first by flipping the story and making himself the victim of violence.
Amidst mounting media attention and mounting legal heat, Brown took to social network X over the weekend to say he’s trying something new. It’s consulting ChatGPT. Brown posted a screenshot of the exchange, asking the AI chatbot if he was being racially profiled in his own case. The AI answered yes, and Brown unleashed a scathing indictment of the media and the American legal system, filled with anger and frustration.
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“How TF You go from being victimized unto a attempt to murder you see they control the media,” he wrote. “Took a month to change the narrative. A year or 2 them dragging the narrative. Attempt to murder you see, They only want 3 types of n****s. In America in jail dead or dead broke.” The intervention of AI on the question of attempted murder introduces another surreal note into an already surrealized situation. Legal scholars take issue with Brown’s unorthodox move, but it highlights how public figures are starting to leverage technology to shape public opinion or, at the very least, get their side out.
ChatGPT is not a lawyer, and its responses, which are based on recognizing patterns rather than insights into the law, are no treatises of case law. However, it’s worth noting that Brown seems to be using this validation from an AI as some combination of emotional support and evidence that there is a broader conspiracy against him. The episode may also prompt broader questions about the intersection of celebrity, justice, and technology. However, in the court of public opinion, it can fuel someone as media-savvy as Brown, who has always known how to keep himself above the fold.
With the legal war continuing to intensify and Brown remaining outside the country, his unconventional defense strategy also puts him in a new category of celebrity defendants, those using AI not merely to strategize but to protest. Nobody can be sure whether it’s for better or worse in his case, except that Antonio Brown is playing in his own personal zone.
