Dogshit title tbh. Neanderthals were not ancestral to Homo sapiens, we both descended from H heidelbergensis (a particular clade of late H erectus). If they can’t even get that right, why are they writing science journalism for the Guardian?

I’d use it as an excuse to get really good at my hobbies for a year or so with no long-term responsibilities getting in the way before even trying to break out lmao

Yeah the actually scary kind of AI worm is one that scrapes dozens to hundreds of credentials people accidentally pushed to GitHub and spreads its API requests across all of them to minimize the chance of being noticed. Not something that requires downloading 5GB+ of LLM to someone’s potato ass hardware and running it at half a token per second.