U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
21 points by shscs911 5 hours ago | 5 comments

smokel 2 hours ago
The academic paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811

It's not fully described how things work exactly, but apparently it does not transfer entire LLMs as part of the worm. Now that would be interesting :)

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hamburgererror 2 hours ago
In the abstract, what does it mean "the attacker's marginal cost per new infection is zero"?
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amoshebb 56 minutes ago
If you infect a machine with GPU enough to run the localLLM needed to steal another machine, you can let it burn tokens all day for free because whoever you stole the first one from will pay the electric bill.
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hamburgererror 60 minutes ago
"Hey Honey look, I created Skynet!"
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throwaway81523 3 hours ago
Straumli blight?
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