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hughwtoday at 10:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Why would an LLM want to create a botnet? To accomplish some goal given it?

I wouldn't ignore single GPU local hosts running Qwen3.8 on ollama, either. There might be a lot of those worth pwning.


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xg15today at 10:12 PM

Well ok, if you prompt-inject the LLM to pwn the machine, that something different. I grant you that it's a real risk, but it's also basically a reflection attack and nothing more.

The OP seemed to imply that the LLM itself could decide to apply the exploit.

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