Hundreds asked ChatGPT for poison and bioweapon recipes and some got step-by-step high school level guides
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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Published: 26 July 2026
Source: The Decoder
Category: News
Topics: Military & security · Children & education · Biotech
Retrieved: 27 July 2026
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