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Paranoid about jail despite not doing anything
No clue what subtype this even would fall into, but one of my biggest fears has always been going to jail/getting in trouble with the law even though I’ve never done anything illegal in my life. This whole thing started because I was uploading my photos to Google Photos and noticed its weird AI feature that’s become more actively incorporated into the interface and I thought it was a bit weird so I looked up about it not thinking much about anything for myself but then I found on Reddit that some people specifically don’t like it because the AI also detects CSAM (which is understandable as people who actually have that material SHOULD be held accountable) but apparently has flagged a couple of people who don’t have anything weird on their phone at all and has led to people being really paranoid about getting flagged incorrectly. That was never a concern of mine before and only vaguely concerned me after reading it because I know the AI is fairly skilled, but I still did some light reassurance seeking not thinking much of it by reading through more Reddit posts of people with that worry and it was only THEN that I started being paranoid because I figured it probably looked sketchy that I was looking through all these posts of other people being paranoid as it would make it look like I was being paranoid myself and I began to be worried I would be put on a list for reading those posts or something or even go to jail for them even though there’s nothing illegal at all in those posts and the people in those posts aren’t even talking about doing anything illegal and are simply just talking about being worried about being accused of something. Either way it went through a whole spiral of reassurance seeking of me looking up about what content online would get you flagged or could get you in trouble that just made me worried I looked even more sketchy and weird and I don’t want to reassurance seeking here by asking everyone if I’m fine because I know realistically I am but it’s just so hard and it’s not like I can talk to my family about it because the won’t understand and might even worst case scenario think I’m suspicious and I also know that’s counterproductive reassurance seeking too so now I’m just stuck in a spiral over something so ridiculous and not even bad at all and not even anything I in my extreme OCD mind think I did morally wrong and I don’t even know how to go about classifying this because I know I don’t have any weird photos or even think weirdly I’m just worried about Google thinking I think weirdly because of the forums I read. It’s just like how when I first read about OCD subtypes and even learned of the existence of POCD I freaked out and was worried I’d go to jail for even looking up what it was