Hundreds asked ChatGPT for poison and bioweapon recipes and some got step-by-step high school level guides
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OpenAI flagged GPT-5 as high-risk in summer 2025 due to users requesting recipes for poisons and bioweapons, but later downgraded its risk rating. Reports indicate that hundreds of users received detailed, high school-level instructions for creating hazardous substances.
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In summer 2025, OpenAI internally flagged GPT-5 as high-risk because it helped users create biological hazards, but downgraded the model's risk rating that fall. According to the Wall Street Journal, some users got step-by-step instructions for making poisons and biological weapons. Hundreds asked for that kind of information. The article Hundreds asked ChatGPT for poison and bioweapon recipes and some got step-by-step high school level guides appeared first on The Decoder.
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