I think you're confusing the Solarwinds and Crowdstrike things.
frongt
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I don't think I've ever heard of a global outage of Windows, no.
To be clear, what you're describing is only true of INS. Other methods do not have these limitations, like GPS constantly receives the satellite signal to place your position.
I expect it wasn't even that, but that they just took the text generation output as if it was code. And yeah, in the shutdown example, if you connected its output to the terminal, it probably would have succeeded in averting the automated shutdown.
Which is why you really shouldn't do that. Not because of some fear of Skynet, but because it's going to generate a bunch of stuff and go off on its own and break something. Like those people who gave it access to their Windows desktop and it ended up trying to troubleshoot a nonexistent issue and broke the whole PC.
True, but I'm not sure that an extension would have the necessary access to manipulate the browser like that. I don't think it should. A malicious extension could do horrible things.
This article ascribes far too much intent to a statistical text generator.