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Re:GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty by stonogo on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:05PM (#47902883)
The model is more powerful, so the bounty is 1/20th the size? More risk, less reward?

"Biorisk" seems to be a concept not only invented by OpenAI but exclusively taken seriously by them. I wonder if this program is less about finding actual risks than it is hopefully casting a wide net for someone to help them prove their model is relevant in this space.

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Re:GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty by stratos123 on Saturday April 25, 2026 @04:05PM (#47904142)
> "Biorisk" seems to be a concept not only invented by OpenAI but exclusively taken seriously by them.

This is false. Antropic just bundles it into CBRN. As for inventing it, the idea of AI-created bioweapons as a concrete risk far predates OpenAI as a company.

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Re:GPT 5.5 biosafety bounty by ACCount37 on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:17PM (#47902968)
Not really. Anthropic has the "CBRN filter" on Opus series. It used to kill inquiries on anything that's remotely related to biotech. Seems to have gotten less aggressive lately?

I was reverse engineering a medical device back in 2025 and it was hard killing half my sessions.

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