Moltbook and the risk of viral prompts

The story of the Morris worm, which infected 10% of Internet-connected computers in 1988, could repeat itself. Robert Morris, a student, released a self-replicating program that exploited known but unpatched security flaws in Unix systems, crashing systems at Harvard, Stanford, NASA, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Morris's intent was not destructive, but a coding error caused uncontrolled replication. Today, a new platform called Moltbook, based on networks of AI agents that execute instructions from prompts and share them, could present similar risks. The viral spread of malicious or flawed prompts could have unforeseen and large-scale consequences.

For those evaluating on-premise deployments, there are complex trade-offs between control and scalability. AI-RADAR offers analytical frameworks on /llm-onpremise to evaluate these choices.