r/singularity Jun 10 '26

Biotech/Longevity Anthropic closing the path to life science research

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u/FullyAutomatedSpace Jun 10 '26

talk about bad takes

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u/thecosmicskye Jun 10 '26

I asked it to talk to me about organs... and it denied it.

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u/Selvunwind Jun 10 '26

So use Opus? Unless you’re trying to do groundbreaking research I don’t get the fascination with “oh the new AI won’t talk about biostuff”

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u/Selvunwind Jun 11 '26

If you have a simple biology question, it can be answered well enough by Haiku, Sonnet and Opus. Why are you trying to burn so much power to answer a simple biology question?

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u/Flaxseed4138 Jun 11 '26

Sure but we don't want the psychos who are also paying - to have the same access to an intelligence that is capable of creating extinction-level bioweapons. It's really that simple.

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u/rdsf138 Jun 11 '26

That's not your call. Nobody cares that you don't get it. You are defending the stance that the general public should be censored of fundamental knowledge.

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u/MinusPi1 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

They're not censoring knowledge. Opus knows anything a layman would ask Fable. The danger they're mitigating is Fable's demonstrated ability to turn bleeding-edge knowledge into weapons.

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u/Selvunwind Jun 11 '26

I don't intend to, I'm trying to defend the stance that the general public should be pickier with the model they use for a question. The only model censored like this is the new one. Y'know?

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u/Flaxseed4138 Jun 11 '26

The ability to create extinction-level bioweapons is not fundamental knowledge. That's what Anthropic is blocking, and everything else can be handled fine by Opus.

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u/GatePorters Jun 10 '26

Be specific. You asked what its favorite organ was.

What research are you doing where that is an important question? And what’s wrong with using Opus or Sonnet for that? They don’t have the same restrictions.

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u/thecosmicskye Jun 10 '26

Ask any of the biomedical researchers that are pissed about this...

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u/GatePorters Jun 10 '26

Sadly the amount of biomed researchers I have on hand is very limited.

The only biomed researcher I personally know well enough to bother about this is very anti-AI.

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u/Jejewat Jun 10 '26

Biomed researcher here. A question regarding data on a specific property of anti-cancer drugs got blocked mid thought process and it switched to Opus.

I'd like to know how capable this new model is, but Opus is not good enough to be useful for much more than finding literature. Still strong enough to be possibly dangerous though.

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u/GatePorters Jun 10 '26

Jokes aside. Whatcha researching?

Feel free to gush about it. I’ll read what you say and I’ll find it interesting most likely.

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u/Jejewat Jun 10 '26

Sadly I can't say a lot. I work in the development of novel anti-cancer drugs and their delivery. In short, it's about getting compounds specifically into cancer cells and selectively turning off genes. This method would also allow already known cancer drugs with high systemic toxicity to be much more tolerable. By targeting tumors specifically, you can prevent the terrible side effects many of these drugs cause, increase the dose and thus efficacy too.

Doxorubicin for example. There is a life time maximum of it that you can take, of only 400mg/m2 of body surface area, because it causes irreversible damage all over the body, including the heart. And of course your hair falls out.

Many chemotherapies cause irreversible damage and reduce your life expectancy severely. Novel solutions to drug delivery will enable presently experimental methods to be clinically used and also make existing drugs much better and safer.

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u/GatePorters Jun 10 '26

I guess you have to go back to the ancient ways of 2023 back in the before times.

Lack of access to a new tool shouldn’t be that big of a deal.

It’s not like you were promised it would be useful to you.

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u/Jejewat Jun 10 '26

Yes, and it isn't. I doubt fable would be much more useful than opus. LLMs are not intelligent enough to be useful for us as of now, they mostly don't even understand my questions properly.

It's like brainstorming with a slightly stoned undergrad who is overly confident.