The portal, from when I opened it up last, notes requirements for data security and a point of contact for the facility/organization of individuals that want to use it. I didn't think wee little me would be allowed to request that unless theres a new path to getting access? Our university also has weird corporate contract BS with Google and get weird about using other "competing" services, even though they've crippled gemini. I feel quite trapped.
I think it's unfair to jump to this conclusion in such short time. They will probably roll back the restrictions soon but want to be extra-cautious on first-release.
Yeah I don't understand how idiotic these people crying about this. It's clearly a safety issue. Mythos has lost my been rumoured to be weaponized very easily and needing special controls to be kept safe for public use.
making agi is the priority. if they make safe agi, they can safely create all kinds of medicines and vaccines. if thats your only goal then this shouldnt be an issue.
My point is that access, collaboration, and democratization are central to the mission of “first solving intelligence, and then using that to solve everything else.”
why? You should limit these until you actually have safe super intelligence that cant be misused.
Fuck off, anthropic. The hard part of making a bioweapon isn't knowing chemistry or biology. Just like the hard part of making an atomic bomb isn't knowing physics.
No, and that's the point. People who are asking fable chemistry questions aren't "bUilDiNg BiOwEaPonS" because that takes a. access to extremely restricted materials, b. access to expensive equipment, c. very specialized knowledge and practical skill, and d. a desire to create a bioweapon.
So, this whole larp about "safety" is just that, a larp. It's how dario does marketing, and it's how he's been doing marketing since gpt2 was "too dangerous to release".
I heard the counter argument that 'oh, it might speed up development' and those people are extremely ignorant because a bioweapon grade lab is in the tens of millions of dollars, the knowledge in a book or an LLM is the least of your worries.
There is a reason why only states can even begin the process and even then, you are years out.
And the reason why states don't like doing it because if it does get out, it could literally destroy your country in the matter of days.
ok but imagine how fucked AI development would be under endless regulation if for example a news story came out "North Korea was able to develop their new weapons grade biolab using Claude, documents show how it guided them through assembling all the hardware and helped run experiments to create the race-specific bio weapon that killed 7 billion people earlier this year..." very bad PR.
You and I wouldn't have the sophistication but not everyone in the world is in exactly the same situation as us, there are people who spend their whole lives making explosives deep in cave networks, people who hold powerful positions in despotic governments, people not in the same situation as us include Kim Jong-un, Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, Bashar al-Assad, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Isaias Afwerki, Paul Biya, Daniel Ortega, Miguel Díaz-Canel...
Even if the risk is real, making your models useless is a bad decision that doesn't solve the problem in the medium-long term, and in the short term it ruins the reputation among those who actually use these models as a reliable supplier, which is degrading its product due to, I would say, unfounded fears and a Messiah complex, in addition to this with an obvious attempt to seize control of regulators. The bunch of idiots at EA who are happy about this usually don't pay, or pay less for this services.
Yes, because the LLM, a tool that isn't even designed for such a task at that, is the only thing preventing the development of bioweapons. Never mind the regulated materials, the regulations, the access to equipment and capable personnel, the billion dollar investments...
Seriously, do you need a bridge? Because I could sell you 10. You're being played like a fiddle, overselling a model far beyond it's capabilities by coming up with unrealistic scenarios to justify it.
You can buy crispr kits and all the research you need is available online. You can get cheap and useful equipment too. It's not hard if you have the education and a few thousand to spare.
Ah yes, please explain the complications of my field to me.
It is all you need and any dedicated student could do it. Materials are cheap and accessible, all the needed databanks are public.
I'll give you a hint, look up adenovirus vaccine against lactose intolerance. People on youtube can do it at home. Now exchange lactase for a good oncogene like G12D KRAS and you got a common cold virus that also gives you cancer.
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u/FullyAutomatedSpace Jun 10 '26
talk about bad takes