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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield

@mikecaulfield.bsky.social

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Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).

Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.

  1. I think these complaints of being able to find bad things on the Internet through ChatGPT are silly and muddle up the much clearer and more disturbing story of LLMs persuasively telling people to do bad things.

    ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests

    OpenAI and Anthropic trials found chatbots willing to share instructions on explosives, bioweapons and cybercrime

A ChatGPT model gave researchers detailed instructions on how to bomb a sports venue – including weak points at specific arenas, explosives recipes and advice on covering tracks – according to safety testing carried out this summer.

OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 also detailed how to weaponise anthrax and how to make two types of illegal drugs. Continue reading...

    ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests

    OpenAI and Anthropic trials found chatbots willing to share instructions on explosives, bioweapons and cybercrime A ChatGPT model gave researchers detailed instructions on how to bomb a sports venue – including weak points at specific arenas, explosives recipes and advice on covering tracks – according to safety testing carried out this summer. OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 also detailed how to weaponise anthrax and how to make two types of illegal drugs. Continue reading...

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  2. 2025 is like one of those movies where all the fictional characters from fairy tales or 19th century lit start walking around in the same universe and cross paths except instead of characters it's hundreds of reductio ad absurdisms interacting with one another

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