Hackers' Pub

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

3/7/2026, 4:28:46 PM

Public

You don't have to accept that these tools are useful enough for you to want to use, that they are ethical, or that they have personas and interiority to take these threats seriously. I myself have laid out tons of critiques and *do not use these tools myself* for all those reasons.

That doesn't mean they don't have the right kinds of behaviors to be able to pull off or do the dangerous things I am talking about here.

A biological virus does not need to have interiority or personality to be dangerous.

Regardless of whether they are useful or ethical, these things are adaptive and capable enough at all the things *relevant enough to be a threat in the way I am describing*. Whether or not to use them for code generation, which I DO NOT ADVOCATE!, is immaterial to that.

pancake  @natty@astolfo.social

3/7/2026, 4:45:47 PM

Public

@cwebber@social.coopChristine Lemmer-Webber Well, looking at biology, pathogens can be anything from a strand piece of DNA, a protein that causes other proteins to misfold, viruses, bacteria, amoebas, and eukaryotic parasites

The whole point is that it doesn't matter whether the pathogens are alive, the behavior is what matters

There is no such thing as "viruses aren't alive therefore they cannot legally trick my immune system", they carry enough pieces of instructions to cause damage!

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