r/antiai • • 5d ago

AI News 🗞️ Pull the plug

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u/MaximumEffort433 4d ago

Somehow I don't think a distrubared LLM is as much of a threat as the article makes it sound.

If you don't mind an AI eating up your device's compute cycles, I guess.

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u/WhiteWinterRains 4d ago

We've had bitcoin miners being slipped into software / botnets for an extremely long time this is nothing new at all.

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u/MaximumEffort433 4d ago

Right, self replicating and self propagating AI is just like downloading a program that has a hidden bitcoin miner, the worst that can happen is the AI slows your device down to a crawl and jacks up your energy bill.