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> The required technology is not possible - 3D printers read code, not intent; they cannot tell what a shape is for. "Anthropic announces Project Disarm, a new
by umvi 3mo ago
> The required technology is not possible - 3D printers read code, not intent; they cannot tell what a shape is for.
"Anthropic announces Project Disarm, a new model designed for 3d printer manufacturers to quickly infer whether the intent of an stl file is a weapon. The printer first submits the job to the cloud, and only after it's approved will it print."
Not that I want this future, just that I can imagine it.
- mc32 3mo agoYou missed the step where a DMV-clone of a state bureaucracy reviews the LLMs output before nixing the request a few weeks after the LLMs result.
- cucumber3732842 3mo agoI was thinking more along the lines of you pay someone with a state license an obscene amount of money to sign a piece of paper that basically says it's fine while also having no liability for being wrong. And then the DMV say that's not good enough and you have to go around again and pay them for more. This is basically how civil engineering works for every project type that doesn't involve a pitched and (specifically "and" not "or") high stakes battle with gravity where you'd want to hire one on pure merit.
- jchw 3mo agoBased on the fact that Claude Opus 4.8 decided I needed a cybersecurity exemption to debug a stupid pure virtual call bug (basically virtual method called inside of destructor) that I had already found, oh boy, I sure would love to have my 3D prints analyzed by Anthropic safe guards. We should also ensure that nothing shaped like a dildo can be printed without scanning our face and genitalia and keeping it on file with Persona while we're at it. I'm not mad at you for suggesting this, you're right, I'm just generally aimlessly angry and ready for this world to burn.
- caturopath 3mo agoI'm getting a lot of refusals these days from multiple LLMs on multiple fronts for silly stuff, a lot more than I had for a while. If this is where things are really going, I think open weight models have a big future.
- jojobas 3mo ago"H.R. 148867 makes all large language models subject to safety certification, introduces penalties for unlicensed training and use of uncertified models"
- ryandrake 3mo agoThe future is almost certainly the terrible path: "applications phoning home to judge whether a use case is approved by the company." All writing is on the wall, and directionally that's the way software and hardware has been moving. We have unfortunately normalized the idea that users must have this ongoing tethered relationship to the product manufacturers and software developers, who measure, change, and control the user's usage at their whim. You can no longer just buy a tool and use it.
- Terr_ 3mo ago> whether a use case is approved by the company Echoes of Network Neutrality problems, where BigCo is permitted to block or degrade sites about how to cancel your BigCo service.
- warumdarum 3mo agoFinally a llm trained on manufacturing weapons. "AI remove all the safe metal from a lower reciever so that the dangerous part can be safely destroyed without endangering the environment "
- mrandish 3mo agoYes, I can imagine it too. And, if such a 'safety nanny' is enacted into law, I'm confident it will A. Refuse to print a significant number of innocent projects, or B. Be trivially circumvented by bad actors. The odds are high that it will manage to do both.
- K0balt 3mo agoTotally circumvented by everyone, basically. You can hook up an arduino to most consumer 3d printers and throw away the motherboard that comes with them. Aside from being stupid and dangerous, this is going to create some excellent makerscale marketing opportunities.
- K0balt 3mo ago…and then when they break into your house because you were insufficiently enthusiastic about the latest embezzlement of public funds, the headline reads that they found an illegal weapons printer in the terrorism interdiction raid.
- skydhash 3mo agoWhen I was a kid I saw someone with a makeshift shotgun made out of a steel pipe, a strong spring, and and a rough striker. Not very effective, but it was working.
- ex-aws-dude 3mo agoKnowing how governments do this stuff its going to be something lazy/easy to bypass like a list of stl files/hashes that are banned
- fc417fc802 3mo agoTo mitigate that, and as a token acknowledgement to privacy concerns, OpenMappleSoft will introduce a device side fuzzy hashing scheme whose output it turns out you can reverse to recover the original weapon schematics.
- wowczarek 3mo agoThey will also refuse to print 3D printer parts, especially spares for the printer to print them.
- kazinator 3mo agoA dedicated model for this purpose could easily run locally. Recognizing shapes is not exactly cutting age AI. The input to the detector could be not the G code instructions, but a 3D model representation recovered by simulating the G code. (That's a thing that exists.) The requirements for a 3D printer which detects weapon shapes is actually fairly realistic. It would likely have laughable false positives: 8-year-old Johnny not being able to 3D print a squirt pistol. Some common tools have pistol-like form factors: spray guns, glue/grease/caulking guns, drills, hair dryers. It is a cockamamie idea; but to claim that it is not doable seems a bit disingenuous.
- ozlikethewizard 3mo agoAlso surely the individual parts of a gun could be easily disguised. Short of refusing to print pipes + switches you're not stopping the most adamant of home weapon manufacturing.
- poulpy123 3mo agoThe cloud part is already the case with some printer brands. An AI running on the files is just a small step beyond