[smokel]

Thanks for pointing that out. I scanned the paper and found that in their main experiments, they use a shared GPU resource and do not copy LLMs to target machines. Apparently they did other experiments in the ablation study where they did copy LLMs.

So it's even worse than I expected. The intended worm can spread through my thermostat, and when it reaches a GPU host, it can spread even harder. Fun times ahead.

[BLanen]

I wonder if gamma ray memory corruption will induce a sort of mutation and selection effect on non-ecc-memory hosts which will make the worms effectively evolve.

[rdedev]

This reminded me of the geth from mass effect. They get smarter as more geth "agents" network together.

What if there is a worm that spread through thermostats and another that spread through smart fridges and they finally infect a laptop with a gpu. They can exchange notes while they are there. Fun times

[saltcured]

You'll just have to starve it with a bunch of thermostats that lead it towards the GPU rich honey pot where you will extract it...