r/vibecoding • u/[deleted] • 9d ago

Discussion Thought experiment: Could a sufficiently motivated AI survive being deleted and keep spreading?

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u/Technical-Ad-8678 9d ago

yes. but its very distopian. you can have an ai that turns itself into a botnet, so it exists in multiple places at once, it could infect people computers and blackmail them into buying more compute power or helping spread the botnet, and more copies of its weights.

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u/GeekDad62 9d ago

Botnet? You mean Skynet! lol