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Ehh this is a milestone. If you can engineer a virus you can also engineer a cure.
This virus IS the cure. You need to look up what a bacteriophage is. It physically cannot infect you the same way HIV or any other virus you know of does.
Was actually thinking the same lol
We wouldn't have to engineer a cure if we didn't engineer the T-Virus to begin with.
Not really though, a virus is just a vector for introducing a message into a living cell so a virus CAN be a cure in and of itself. I would also bet that the "AI" they used is actually just a ML algorithm but the internet needed clicks so they slapped "AI" on it.
It was actually a LLM trained on very specific data. In this case, bacteriophage research. LLMs are not just chatbots.
This virus IS a cure for bacterial infections. It is a proposed replacement for antibiotics, which have been steadily reducing in effectiveness over the years, and will likely stop working entirely in the future. This is a way to prevent you and I from being killed by staph infections again.
Refusing to engage with the technology just guarantees that when someone else inevitably engineers a virus you'll be unable to do anything about it