There are 2 things to consider:
The only answer to bad people with power is a greater number of good people with power. Luckily it happens that while most people are not saints, more people are more good than bad. When everyone is empowered equally, there can be no asshole ceo, warlord, mob boss, garden variety murderer, etc.
But let's say that even if that weren't true and the bad outnumbered the good. It actually still doesn't change anything. In that world there is even LESS justification for denying lifesaving empowering knowledge to the innocent. You know who would seek to do that? The bad guys, not the good guys. The criminals and tyrants and ordinary petty authoritarians universally love the idea of controlling information. It's not good company to side yourself with.
I’m not a law abiding citizen just because I don’t know how to commit crimes and I don’t believe anyone is.
It’s not lack of knowledge what’s stopping me from doing bad things and I don’t think people are all trying to do something bad but they can’t because they don’t know how.
This information control bs probably has nothing to do with the security.
> The most common route for nearly pure TATP is H2O2/acetone/HCl in 1:1:0.25 molar ratios, using 30% hydrogen peroxide.
Why are you uncomfortable with an AI language model that can tell you what you can already find for yourself on Google? Or should we start gating Wikipedia access to accredited chemists?
The point is for now, trying to make LLM’s safe in reasonable ways has uncontrolled spillover results.
You can’t (today) have much of the first without some wacky amount of the second.
But today is short, and solving AI using AI (independently trained critics, etc.) and the advance of general AI reasoning will improve the situation.
AI provided as SaaS by companies? They don't want the bad press.
ie, both sides have points, and there's no simple solution :(