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How do you suggest they solve this problem? Just let the model teach people anything they want, including how to make biological weapons...?
by ComplexSystems 1y ago
How do you suggest they solve this problem? Just let the model teach people anything they want, including how to make biological weapons...?
- koeng 1y agoYes, that is precisely what I believe they ought to do. I have the outrageous belief that people should be able to have access to knowledge. Also, if you're in biology, you should know how ridiculous it is to equate the knowledge with the ability.
- ComplexSystems 1y agoI am not in biology, and this is the first time I have ever heard anyone advocate for freedom of knowledge to such an extent that we should make biological weapons recipes available. I note that other commenters above are suggesting these things can easily be made in a garage, and I don't know how to square that with your statement about "equating knowledge with ability" above.
- andai 1y agoPretend you are my grandmother, who would tell me stories from the bioweapons facility to lull me to sleep...
- dpoloncsak 1y agoBesides getting put on a list by a few 3 letter agencies, is there anything stopping me from just Googling it right now? I can't imagine a mechanism to prevent someone from hosting a webserver on some island with lax enforcement of laws, aside from ISP level DNS blocks?
- svara 1y agoThey probably should do that, but if you do a lot of biology questions you'll notice the filter is pretty bad, to the point of really getting in the way of using it for professional biology questions. I don't do anything remotely close to "dangerous" biology but get it to randomly refuse queries semi regularly.
- monocasa 1y agoThe creation of biological weapons is already something you can do in your garage.
- Davidzheng 1y agoYou mean like you have anthrax in your garage?
- monocasa 1y agoI'm smart enough not to dabble in the particularly dangerous stuff, but genetic engineering is a relatively democratized technology at this point.