Yesterday, AI totally screwed up my machine and whole day.
The symptoms were pegged CPU (fan spinning loudly), “unable to fork” messages when trying to run Terminal commands, and 1000’s of grep, curl, and python processes running out of control.
That last clause there, ie, those processes running out of control, looks like an attack. Like maybe somehow I’ve launched a virus on my machine, and that virus (a python script) is searching my machine (the grep) for all credentials and sending them (the curl) to some unknown location.
Panic. Shut the network down. Shut the machine down. Shut it all down.
Luckily, that was a red herring. No attack.
It turns out it was just AI looping on itself and amplifying the crap. Unmitigated. Untethered. Unlimited.
Note to self: We may put some limits on AI.
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