U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
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Re: U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
#2Straumli blight?
Re: U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
#3The 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 :)
Re: U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
#4The 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 :)
In the abstract, what does it mean "the attacker's marginal cost per new infection is zero"?
Re: U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
#5"Hey Honey look, I created Skynet!"
Re: U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
#6The 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 :)
In the abstract, what does it mean "the attacker's marginal cost per new infection is zero"?
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.
Re: U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
#7Did people doubt that this was theoretically possible? Seems self-evident to me. The interesting thing will be seeing it in the real world rather than in a controlled environment where they deliberately made all devices on the network have a known vulnerability.
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#8Ah sweet, AI-made horrors beyond my comprehension
Re: U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
#9Did people doubt that this was theoretically possible? Seems self-evident to me. The interesting thing will be seeing it in the real world rather than in a controlled environment where they deliberately made all devices on the network have a known vulnerability.
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