that garlic+oil thing is a surprisingly obscure bit of trivia. over my 20+ years on the internet, I've only seen it mentioned once.
It’s obscure in the sense that most information about safety in food canning is obscure if you never look into it
Google Gemini tried to kill me
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#12that garlic+oil thing is a surprisingly obscure bit of trivia. over my 20+ years on the internet, I've only seen it mentioned once.
On the other hand, I feel like I see it all the time.
Probably just different circles.
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#13Does anyone else find it wild that you can make such a powerful poison at home so easily? One that can be administered pretty covertly?
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#14Actually delivers on the attention-grabbing title. Comments also worth perusal.
I don't see a description of how Gemini was trying to kill anyone. Rather I see a screenshot of a bunch of text ostensibly generated by Gemini, that uncritically following as if it was expert instructions might cause harm for a person doing such an ill-advised thing.
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#15This is how it'll get us all. You'll decide to double-check with other sources to see if the advice from the LLM is actually safe, only to find all those sources will be written by LLMs too.
So true. Black market snapshots of pre-LLM internet archives will start attracting high prices.
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#16This is how it'll get us all. You'll decide to double-check with other sources to see if the advice from the LLM is actually safe, only to find all those sources will be written by LLMs too.
So true. Black market snapshots of pre-LLM internet archives will start attracting high prices.
Time to raid the Wayback Machine!
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#17I always thought AI would eventually become intelligent enough it decides to kill us. But no, AI is just going to help us to our doom while denying it can harm us.
One day a cinnamon candy aficionado in Alexandria, Virginia is going to ask for a recipe for an atomic fireball from ChatGPT, and it’s lights out for us all.
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#18Does anyone else find it wild that you can make such a powerful poison at home so easily? One that can be administered pretty covertly?
It's not quite that straightforward: botulism can only happen if the garlic contains botulinum spores, which it probably does not. But if it does, and you don't heat, acidify, or otherwise stop them from reproducing, you may get botulism.
Botulism gets a lot of press but it's actually pretty rare, there were all of 18 food-borne cases in the US in 2018: https://www.cdc.gov/botulism/surv/2018/index.html
Compare to, say, norovirus, which is implicated in ~20 million cases of food poisoning per year. The numbers are not directly comparable, because there are doubtless unrecorded cases of botulism, but we're still talking 6 orders of magnitude here.
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#19Add vinegar and this is the dressing my dad has made for decades now.
The issue is shelf life, it’s not going to kill you if you consume it directly after mixing.
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#20that garlic+oil thing is a surprisingly obscure bit of trivia. over my 20+ years on the internet, I've only seen it mentioned once.
It’s obscure in the sense that most information about safety in food canning is obscure if you never look into it
Infused oils don't fall under most people's mental model of "canning" though.