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submitted 10 months ago by crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de to c/biology@mander.xyz

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Bonkers preprint, the guys generated phage genomes with AI, synthesized them, and some were actually functional viruses capable of infecting E. coli.

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[–] crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

Well the models were trained on bacteriophages, so it's pretty much impossible that the viruses could be human pathogens, still scary af though lol