Nobody said they replicated by authoring the replica from scratch, which seems to be what you’re assuming. A generative AI is ultimately a lump of code and a statistical model. Surely you’re not saying that it cannot copy files given file system access.
Because copying some files and starting new processes is all it really has to do to ‘self replicate’.
What a legend. Kudos!
Yeah, that sounds exactly like what everybody were looking for in an OS. /s
I’ve been very happy to be using Linux for the past decade and a half, but never more so than now.
I’m no lawyer, let alone a US lawyer, but can somebody explain how this isn’t a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which makes it a federal offense to intentionally access a “protected computer” without authorization or by exceeding authorized access?
Totally nailed it!
Here’s hoping it isn’t a windy day. Or raining.