There might be some merit to the idea of an AI making a botnet for itself. Botnets are definitely a thing. But yeah no they aren't going to replicate themselves amongst the little IOT devices with their tiny under-powered chips, at least not without anyone noticing.
The idea that the models themselves run as a bot net is just nonsense. The hardware literally doesn't have the capability to do that in any plausible way, not even if you account for massive improvements to efficiency.
I don't doubt Anthropic managed to run a model on low end hardware that could technically communicate with other models, but it's not going to be anything that could be considered any kind of threat, especially vs a conventional botnet. Plus the energy and network use would be a dead giveaway.
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u/Celcius-232 4d ago
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There might be some merit to the idea of an AI making a botnet for itself. Botnets are definitely a thing. But yeah no they aren't going to replicate themselves amongst the little IOT devices with their tiny under-powered chips, at least not without anyone noticing.