What is a fork bomb? Never heard that term
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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It’s a form of malware that exponentially burns through resources. The classic example is using the Unix fork command, which spawns a new process. You then program it so each process spawns several child processes, each of which spawn children of their own, and so on until the computer runs out of compute resources and freezes up entirely.
In this case, the idea is to have the LLM query LLMs in the same recursive manner, burning query tokens almost as fast as OpenAI burns venture capital.
...and fossil fuels!
Thanks, that sounds like fun...
Why would they even do this whole thing, if this is a likely possibility? Because one user doing this will just brick the system
Great deal, and all I have to do is join ~~the worst site in the world~~ LinkedIn?