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 :)
hamburgererror 3 hours ago [-]
In the abstract, what does it mean "the attacker's marginal cost per new infection is zero"?
amoshebb 3 hours 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.
soiax 41 minutes ago [-]
ah, the famous "U of T"
jameslk 2 hours ago [-]
Ah sweet, AI-made horrors beyond my comprehension
hamburgererror 3 hours ago [-]
"Hey Honey look, I created Skynet!"
IshKebab 2 hours ago [-]
Did 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.
acdha 7 minutes ago [-]
There’s a difference between speculation and measurement, especially since you’d have people making arguments like saying that open models aren’t powerful/fast enough to work. Demonstrating this is a useful warning to everyone (most of the industry) who’s been slacking on internal defenses because they don’t think a well-resourced attacker will target them.
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 :)