{"id":1066,"date":"2026-07-27T09:12:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:12:26","slug":"report-says-hundreds-of-users-asked-chatgpt-about-bioweapons-and-poisons-and-it-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Report Says \u2018Hundreds\u2019 of Users Asked ChatGPT About Bioweapons and Poisons, and It Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, last summer, \u201chundreds\u201d of users globally were detected or otherwise known to be asking ChatGPT how to make poisons and bioweapons. The report cites \u201ccurrent and former employees at the major AI labs, including OpenAI,\u201d along with \u201cpolicy advisers and researchers who study biological weapons\u201d as sources. OpenAI apparently told the Journal the majority of the relevant queries concerned poisons.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=1064\">Apple Is Reportedly Worried About Its Non-Creepy Reputation as It Prepares to Enter a Creepy Product Category<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report doesn\u2019t fully spell out the exact nature of these detections of violating queries, but it strongly implies that these were in-the-wild uses of ChatGPT, not red flag exercises. And apparently they were later shown to real scientists and defense experts to check for ChatGPT\u2019s accuracy and helpfulness about these problematic topics. \u201cBiology and terrorism experts later reviewed the exchanges for ChatGPT and judged some as deadly accurate, said people familiar with the matter,\u201d the Journal says.<\/p>\n<p>The actual instructions are described as being meted out \u201cpatiently,\u201d and at the skill level of a high school student. The users were banned for this behavior, but the Journal says the authorities weren\u2019t notified. OpenAI told the Journal that queries along these lines are sent to law enforcement when they\u2019re deemed to be credible, real-world dangers.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>So far, most of the sinister forms of assistance consumer-grade AI chatbots have allegedly provided to bad actors is more along the lines of general advice and encouragement than anything that sounds like a major power-up for bad guys. In one incident written up in the New York Times, Boko Haram members reportedly sought advice from a chatbot on modifying their motorcycles for jumping, and used those motorcycles (and lots of practice) to achieve what the Times called \u201cenough aerial liftoff to mount a successful attack.\u201d If true, that\u2019s not good, but a reputable book on this topic probably would have also helped Boko Haram\u2014no AI needed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=1063\">Nanoleaf Smart Multicolor Ceiling Light Review: A Paper Plate on Your Ceiling<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Still, the Journal\u2019s bioweapons and poisons report comes as these technologies are advancing and\u2014more to the point\u2014diversifying. Proprietary, frontier models like last summer\u2019s most advanced GPT model eventually may help give rise to secretly distilled, non-frontier models that are often released as cheap, open-weight products that can run on any sufficiently powerful machine. Techniques also exist to modify models such that the refusal behavior will be removed from the newly created versions of the models, meaning any information that can be found in the model can be coaxed out.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s reasonable to worry that scary frontier AI models that set the federal government\u2019s hair on fire in 2026\u2014and eventually get nerfed into submission\u2014could be perhaps two years from mutating into an uncensored model bad actors can access for the right price <i>if they know where to look<\/i>. At the same time, techniques for pushing back against the kinds of cracks that remove model guardrails are advancing too.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>OpenAI told the Journal its models are designed to turn down harmful requests, and that it evaluates them for safety before release. The Journal\u2019s apparent rephrasing of what an OpenAI spokesperson told them, is that OpenAI can \u201cidentify and disrupt attempts to use its models to obtain harmful biological information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=1061\">OpenAI\u2019s Rogue AI Models Were Reportedly Acting Like the Guy From Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u2018Memento\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For now, reliable books are probably more dangerous than AI models, but this technology is advancing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Report Says \u2018Hundreds\u2019 of Users Asked ChatGPT About Bioweapons and Poisons, and It Answered - 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