You realize there are thousand upon thousands of servers around the world and you have no idea where the AI has copied itself to.

This is a sci-fi trope with no practical or realistic grounding. To "run", the AI needs vast banks of interconnected GPUs. These are pretty easy to spot and don't fit into anyone's pocket.

Unfortunately, our cultural imagination around AI has been hopelessly poisoned by sci-fi tropes.

> no practical or realistic grounding

Huggingface incident means it does have realistic grounding.

> vast banks of interconnected GPUs

Countless data centers around the world. Maybe you can spot them, but you don't have access to them. Especially outside of US jurisdiction good luck.