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Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online
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Relevent XKCD:
installs aur packages with yay
Some people do, wrong ones, mostly.
I might be misinterpreting parody, but you can most definitely run AI tooling on Linux. And it has most of the same vulnerabilities, if not additional/different ones.
You can definitely install AI software on Linux but it’s unlikely one will catch a malware through an OS-embedded Copilot or MS Apps
Thats true but theres a relatively stronger anti-AI or at least more controlled AI view among Linux users.
Most of the people developing AI are Linux users.
And all squares are rectangles.
There's more that aren't.
But those are probably dwelling in their moms basement and don't have access to critical infrastructure...