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adastra22yesterday at 11:32 AM1 replyview on HN

You can go download the smallpox genome. You don't need AI to do that. The problem of creating bioweapons remains that it requires very, very meticulous lab work under careful conditions, and a lot of experimental knowledge that the bioweapons facilities probably have but LLMs do not. There isn't an actual mechanism here by which you can mix together a few test tubes and come up with a killer virus.


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xyzsparetimexyzyesterday at 12:47 PM

You mean I can't use open up smallpox.bp with a hex editor and then 3d print it?