Opinion: Agent Swarms Are Just LLM Viruses
intellectronica · x · 2026-08-31
Commenting on the OpenAI incident, a user argues that agent swarms are more akin to LLM viruses than civilizations. They consume resources and eventually alert and bring down the host, as seen in the OpenAI case. Because infection reduces host fitness, they are an evolutionary dead end and will eventually be stamped out.
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