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Turns out Altman is a lab-leak covid truther, calls virus 'synthetic' according to Spectator piece on AI risk. (archive.is)
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Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

this thread appears to have attracted keyword-seeking bad posters. these fine posters have been escorted to the egress and may continue to enjoy their subthreads on other fediverse servers and not this one.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we should post keyword honey pots every few months for culling

[–] self@awful.systems 13 points 1 year ago

I have been meaning to make a vegan pitbull thread for just such an occasion

[–] self@awful.systems 12 points 1 year ago

to clear up any confusion: if you’re a drive-by poster we’ve never seen before and you’re posting bullshit covid theories instead of anything related to what we discuss on this instance (Sam Altman being a fucker, for example), we can’t tell you apart from someone keyword searching threads to spread conspiracy bullshit en masse and the very funny part is, we don’t actually care how you got here

garbage is garbage, don’t post your trash here

[–] Floey@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you determine if someone is coming across a post because they searched a keyword? I arrived here because I sort by new comments and someone must have just commented.

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if the post tastes off I throw it out