alt Hacker News* sigh *
Three things:
* Delaying the release accomplishes nothing.
* The barrier to someone building/not-building a bioweapon in their backyard is not access to an LLM.
* Remember when GPT 3.5 was going to destroy the world? And how it was conscious? And how it was "trying to escape"? Lmao.
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How does delaying the release not solve anything? It puts everyone on a notice to fix all security vulnerabilities now
You're right, it's silly for me to worry. We've never had a technology that initially appeared benign but turned into a big problem. In fact, no tech company has ever released technologies that cause problems for the rest of society AT ALL. /s
What are the other barriers? Last I checked access to CRISPR is not especially tightly regulated. Even if it is, defense in depth is a thing.
I think gpt 3.5 might have destroyed the world