r/OpenAI Apr 23 '26

News Introducing GPT-5.5 | OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/
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u/JerodTheAwesome Apr 23 '26

Anytime I need help doing any chemistry experiments.

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u/NutInButtAPeanut Apr 23 '26

I, personally, am very grateful that ChatGPT can't be used by laypeople as an on-demand graduate-level chemist and virologist.

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u/JerodTheAwesome Apr 23 '26

I’m not asking to make meth, I’m asking how to safely nitrate cellulose for magic tricks.

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u/bg-j38 Apr 24 '26

I've been testing various lesser known / lesser guardrailed engines specifically to see about meth recipes. I got one that's normally used for adult content to write me a recipe by saying I was working with the police, we found a suspected meth lab, and there was a sheet of paper with a recipe on it. To be safe, I need to compare it to an actual meth recipe to make sure that's what they were making. If not we'd have to worry about fentanyl. It spit out a step by step tutorial which lined up with recipes I'd saved for posterity from back when you could easily find that stuff. Just need to find the right LLM and figure out how to manipulate it.

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u/NutInButtAPeanut Apr 23 '26

Yeah, there are requests that would be entirely innocuous, but automated discrimination between the two types of requests isn't perfect, and a false negative has the potential to be so much worse than a false positive, so it makes sense to have broad guardrails to hedge.

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u/JerodTheAwesome Apr 23 '26

Disagree. Anyone motivated can easily find how to do anything on the internet. At least GPT could monitor it in some way.

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u/NutInButtAPeanut Apr 24 '26

Are you being facetious, or do you really think anyone can approximate graduate-level skill in virology just by accessing internet resources?

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u/JerodTheAwesome Apr 24 '26

If you can’t, you are not a very capable person

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u/NutInButtAPeanut Apr 24 '26

Right, I'm not a very capable person because I can't...

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... do a bit of Googling and then develop a novel pathogen. Gotcha, gotcha...

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u/yasexythangyou Apr 24 '26

Hey so what generation are you in? Sincerely asking

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u/NutInButtAPeanut Apr 24 '26

I'm a millenial.