alt Hacker NewsI made a tiny ai bug hunting harness (<4MB) that has everything (except the model obviously). It was designed for pentesting purposes where the tiny size matters to make it more portable between environments.
The intended purpose is not to be used as a worm but it does not take a genius to figure out that with small modifications such a thing could work relatively well - especially if it uses AI keys from compromised targets. Making the agent self-modifiable is relatively straightforward task and in fact I already did that in another project.
Every Windows computer has a small rwkv model on it. Wouldn't be hard at all to get decent cpu performance from a tiny malicious harness, especially one that used the self-evolving skills features and open source models.
Malware is going to be crazy, people aren't ready for the revelation of how insecure and broken things are. Everything is held together by bubblegum, duct tape, and panicked engineers putting out fires.