About whether future malware could run powerful LLMs locally on ordinary devices.
Has this happened?
Yes 17 (14%)Not sure 22 (18%)No 81 (68%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether future malware could run powerful LLMs locally on ordinary devices.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
You’re assuming that powerful models will eventually run on consumer potato hardware. That isn’t guaranteed. My intuition says that we’ll never be able to pack Opus or GPT-level intelligence small enough to run on a standard consumer laptop or router. At least not without heavy quantization.