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Self-adapting and mutating LLM based viruses/worms (opens in new tab)

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I am thinking about a future of malware and cyber worms. I bet it's gonna be self-mutating and adapting to local environment using local models (once they are built-in to all devices and performant enough in future years). Basically almost a real organism resembling real biological viruses. In this case the non-determinism of LLMs is a feature. Every infection could take its own development path - and half might die, half might survive. Think genetic programming but autonomous and on steroids...

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