Comment by nightpool

... No, that was the entire point of Anthropic's report on replication that GP was discussing. Did you read it? https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai Anthropic was able to get a large open-source model running (slowly, but running) across 5 networked consumer IOT devices ($50 TV boxes running Android). Not a stretch to say we could see this capability become much easier for to most agents in the next 12 months, especially as companies are able to distill smaller and more efficient versions of their models.