Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?

25 points by riQQ a day ago on tildes | 4 comments

[OP] riQQ | a day ago

I've always had a fascination with reverse-engineering browser fingerprinting scripts. Most of my time has been spent looking at the usual suspects (popular fingerprinting libraries like FingerprintJS and more sophisticated scripts used by anti-bots like Cloudflare Turnstile, Akamai, and others).

At some point, I wanted to know what else was out there. I had an idea: What if I crawled the web and intercepted fingerprinting-related browser API calls and mapped it all?

Fiachra | 14 hours ago

This makes me imagine a future where AIs can do any coding a human can, but humans are still required for certain tasks because they're the only ones not bound by safeguards.

And every novel has to involve biowarfare and tianeman square throughout, to prove an AI didn't write it.

balooga | 13 hours ago

At least for the time being, abliterated open weights are a dime a dozen. It’s fairly trivial to remove most safeguards from today’s LLMs, because they’re implemented via reversible post-training. This may not always be the case but there are plenty of models available now that won’t bat an eye at stuff like this.

CannibalisticApple | 5 hours ago

And every novel has to involve biowarfare and tianeman square throughout, to prove an AI didn't write it.

Okay, this is just funny to me. Imagine all the classics rewritten to include that... Or reading "Junie B. Jones and the Gross Terror Sniffles" to your kid.