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Copilot worm can spread through Microsoft Word docs
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Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps
The article talks about a document-born self propagating virus demonstration a group of security researchers made because LLMs/Copilot doesn't distinguish between data and instructions. The article does not imply this was seen in the wild.
You promise?
Consequences of actions and all that.
Bit of schadenfreude watching these bloated, monopolistic tech companies screw themselves over in hubristic pursuit of more power and profit.
Anyone using AI for a financial report deserves exactly what they asked for.
“To my knowledge, this is among the first public demonstrations of document-borne AI-worm self-propagation through normal workflows in a mainstream commercial productivity suite.”
What a fucking sentence my god. Every scientist in cyberpunk shit should talk exactly like this.
This is what happens when you don't separate instructions from data. It's boot sector viruses all over again
the only way to block it is to get AI to differentiate instructions from data, which is impossible today.
Heh, it's like a buffer overflow
JUST MORE MARKETING FOR AI. Don’t fall for it!
The worm is just trying to juice the IPO.
This stock photo is wild with those fishing bait rubber "worms"
Oh, cool. Just when my job mandated a training that requires installation of a local LLM that reads your emails and documents. Maybe we’ll get fucked by someone getting an email.
That’s an interesting twist on the Tower of Babel
Claims it's only Copilot, but what about any other LLM connected to document workflow?
Fantastic news. Sort of like AI convincing the people who use AI to off themselves, it's the problem slowly taking care of itself.
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