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I’m still waiting for the first runaway autonomous botnet.
by conradev 11mo ago
I’m still waiting for the first runaway autonomous botnet.
- londons_explore 11mo agoCurrently AI doesn't work very well on hardware separated by hundreds of milliseconds of latency and slow network links. Both the training and inference are slow. However I think this is a solvable problem, and I started solving it a while ago with decent results: https://github.com/Hello1024/shared-tensor https://github.com/Hello1024/shared-tensor When someone gets this working well, I could totally see a distributed AI being tasked with expanding it's own pool of compute nodes by worming into things and developing new exploits and sucking up more training data.
- conradev 11mo agoCouldn’t an AI write and deploy a botnet much like a human does today? With a small, centralized inference core. It doesn’t need to be fully decentralized, the control plane just needs some redundancy
- SchemaLoad 11mo agoIt's kind of surprising that it hasn't happened already, outside of iot junk. Seems like computer OSs just got so secure that it's become impractical to deploy a widespread exploit. And everything moved to scamming instead.
- conradev 11mo agoThe botnets will always use the biggest bang for their buck, which at the moment is seemingly IoT devices and residential IP proxies. They do still exist: https://blog.cloudflare.com/defending-the-internet-how-cloudflare-blocked-a-monumental-7-3-tbps-ddos/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/defending-the-internet-how-cloud... You don’t need a full host compromise to send network traffic