Ignoring the question of “could current ai do this?”, the fact remains that most PCs that can get infected either can’t run the model (not enough ram) or run it with an immediately noticeable spike in CPU usage (100% for hours/days) or a spike in GPU usage that would block most other tasks to a standstill.
It doesn’t need to be running at full power, it can be slow but deadly. And 99% of users are not gonna notice a random program using 10% of their resources.
Press x to doubt.
Ignoring the question of “could current ai do this?”, the fact remains that most PCs that can get infected either can’t run the model (not enough ram) or run it with an immediately noticeable spike in CPU usage (100% for hours/days) or a spike in GPU usage that would block most other tasks to a standstill.
It doesn’t need to be running at full power, it can be slow but deadly. And 99% of users are not gonna notice a random program using 10% of their resources.
Also, they could be helped by remote LLMs which do the heavylifting.