U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device

18 points by shscs9113 hours ago

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smokel1 hour ago
The academic paper is here: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811</a><p>It's not fully described how things work exactly, but apparently it does <i>not</i> transfer entire LLMs as part of the worm. Now that would be interesting :)
- hamburgererror19 minutes ago
  In the abstract, what does it mean "the attacker's marginal cost per new infection is zero"?
  - amoshebb12 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.
hamburgererror16 minutes ago
"Hey Honey look, I created Skynet!"
throwaway815231 hour ago
Straumli blight?