Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

Post by sajithdilshan » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 8:55 AM UTC

fc417fc802 wrote: post #211

sajithdilshan wrote: post #81

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I don't think knowing how to build a bio weapon means one could actually build a bio weapon. It's like saying knowing how to build a nuclear weapon can easily lead to building a nuclear weapon. Advanced machinery and safety precaution is needed to engineer a virus or a bacteria to be a bio weapon. It's not something you can do in your tool shed at the moment. Also one would need lethal viruses to even start with and…

> Advanced machinery and safety precaution is needed to engineer a virus or a bacteria to be a bio weapon. It's not something you can do in your tool shed at the moment. Also one would need lethal viruses to even start with and that's not something you can order off of amazon. This is laughably misinformed. You can in fact build a bio weapon in a glorified shed if you know what you're doing. However it will be quite…

Post by fc417fc802 » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 9:07 AM UTC

sajithdilshan wrote: post #222

fc417fc802 wrote: post #211

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> Advanced machinery and safety precaution is needed to engineer a virus or a bacteria to be a bio weapon. It's not something you can do in your tool shed at the moment. Also one would need lethal viruses to even start with and that's not something you can order off of amazon. This is laughably misinformed. You can in fact build a bio weapon in a glorified shed if you know what you're doing. However it will be quite…

> This is laughably misinformed. You can in fact build a bio weapon in a glorified shed if you know what you're doing. This is pure ignorance and or thinking it can be done like shown in TV shows or movies. Any bio-weapon that is effective would be a virus/bacteria that is propagated via air particles like Antrax. That's not something you can build in a shed because without the safety precaution the person creating i…

Post by TimByte » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 9:11 AM UTC

KronisLV wrote: post #127

throwa356262 wrote: post #96

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DeepSeek, minimax and so on have razer thin margins but unlike openai and Anthropic they are actually making some profit. Doing this doesn't make any financial sense. Maybe Anthropic is confusing Chinese AI providers with token resellers using the same alibaba infrastructure? Or maybe something like openrouter was switching between operators depending on price/demand/availability? Also, how can Anthropic have such ac…

I’ve seen the supposed Kimi thinking output yap about Anthropic’s guidelines and whatnot on many occasions - could also be the result of distillation, but also that straight up being Claude’s output. To be honest I've also gotten Kimi to do an okay proof of concept for SQLi though mostly in a more defensive role, like "Let's see how big of a problem this is", while Claude complained about CVP on the same task.

Post by podocarp » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 9:28 AM UTC

godelski wrote: post #183

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Bioweapons are the most difficult thing to pull off out of all possible attack vectors. A rogue nation state could obviously do it, but they could also do any other number of equally harmful attacks, and none of it requires AI. A non-state actor is another thing entirely. It requires the right lab equipment, the right lab know-how, the ability to develop the weapon without killing yourself, the ability to not get cau…

I'm also confused why everyone is so much more afraid of that than... say... a group of terrorists dumping millions of nails into a few major highways across the country. Easy to pull off, doesn't require coordination, cheap, causes billions of dollars of damage and makes people think the terrorists could be anywhere. Like what are they going to do, arrest every construction worker?

Post by podocarp » Fri, Sep 11, 2026, 9:35 AM UTC

fintler wrote: post #62

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WW2 is notable for not seeing widespread deployment of chemical weapons. Hitler had been subject to gas attacks as a foot soldier in WW1 and forbade the use of chemical weapons as inhumane.

> Hitler had been subject to gas attacks as a foot soldier in WW1 and forbade the use of chemical weapons as inhumane. He didn’t seem to have a problem using them against civilian targets.