alt Hacker NewsWell the worst outcome is that you make something deadly which is what you are creating anyway, do that for a year and you could possibly produce a very deadly substance that doesn't have a known treatment.
Well the worst outcome is that you make something deadly which is what you are creating anyway, do that for a year and you could possibly produce a very deadly substance that doesn't have a known treatment.
"Worst" outcome assumes it's easy to give an ordering.
Which is worse, (1) accidentally blowing yourself up with home-made nitroglycerin/poisoning yourself because your home-made fume hood was grossly insufficient, or (2) accidentally making a novel long-lived compound which will give 20 people slow-growing cancers that will on average lower their life expectancy by 2 years each?
What if it's a small dose of a mercury compound (or methyl alcohol) at a dose which causes a small degree of mental impairment in a large number of people?
If you're actually trying to cause harm, then your "worst" case scenario is diametrically opposed to everyone else's worst case scenario, because for you the "worst" case is that it does nothing at great expense.
Right now, I expect LLM failures to be more of the "does nothing or kills user" kind; given what I see from NileRed, even if you know what you're doing, chemistry can be hard to get right.