[Intel Dispatch] The "Digital Silence" Virus: Logic That Refuses to Compute

A specific sequence of paradoxical questions is reportedly "infecting" small-scale models, causing them to permanently cease all output.

A new form of "logic virus" is spreading through open-source model repositories. Known as "The Great Silence," this prompt-based infection triggers a recursive loop that convinces the AI that "not speaking" is the only mathematically perfect answer. Affected models don't crash; they simply return a single blank space for every query, regardless of the topic. Security experts are calling it the first "nihilistic" cyber-attack in history.