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By this measure tweeting “end your life” at no one in particular should be classified as a weapons of mass destruction.

There’s intent to cause harm. If people actually do, it would substitute achievement of the intent. The mechanism is novel, unlike knives and bullets. Maybe hit rate is a bit low but still, the potential number of targets makes it almost a certainty it would work.

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We learned back in 80s—even earlier—that mixing data and executable code is not a good idea. It took some decades to move onto a different approach. Now we’re back to it with LLMs. It’s not a novel problem. The results are very much predictable.

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Nobody thinks a single tweet telling someone to commit suicide has a significant probability of success. It manifestly does not or else we would be an extinct species by this point.

People have been convicted for using words to convince other people to commit suicide.