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What decade are you from, the 2010s? Today you need an LLM, preferably two, to do anything. Just like half a decade ago you needed a blockchain to do anything.

Obviously, the answer is you don't.

My personal concerns are more that we are going to see the botnets get smarter and smarter and more automated.

Just imagine if every script kiddie running a "dumb" botnet suddenly got 2x more effective.

Or rather ^2

He was referring the automatic expansion behavior of the botnet

> capable of managing and to some degree extend botnets.

He was referring to both managing and expanding. The latter I might see an argument for. The former? I do not.

The bot can use the LLM to scan for "interesting" information. It could read emails, see private documents, browsing histories, passwords, etc. Essentially a Recall system controlled by adversarial LLMs. That makes the bot much more dangerous.

Need is such a strong word.