2026-10-13 09:55 UTC
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@NoLemurs@lemmy.world 2026-10-13 10:44
It doesn’t even have to be only for known devices. Once you’ve compromised one device, you can just phone home to have a full powered LLM do your work. The only real use cases for this would be on closed networks with no internet access, or networks where the traffic is closely monitored. Like, yeah, if I’m trying to hack the CIA, maybe I consider something like this. For the vast majority of devices and networks, this is inefficient and unnecessary. I mean, it is kind of cool. But vanishingly few organizations have tight enough security that this is worth doing.
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@melfie@lemmy.zip 2026-10-13 11:20
Yeah, hard to get local LLMs running decently fast even when done deliberately. Like people aren’t going to notice their CPU, memory, and GPU are all getting pegged when this malware runs?
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@gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-13 23:32
Yeah the actually scary kind of AI worm is one that scrapes dozens to hundreds of credentials people accidentally pushed to GitHub and spreads its API requests across all of them to minimize the chance of being noticed. Not something that requires downloading 5GB+ of LLM to someone’s potato ass hardware and running it at half a token per second.
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@skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-21 16:57
You are completely missing the point. This is done exclusively for doomer headlines. OpenAI: “the AI escaped and hacked websites” Us: “Ackshually it didn’t it just connected to the internet, it was always on your server where you could shut it down.” Anthropic: “Hold my beer.”