AI is a conspiracy theory—companies are just hiring people in lower-income countries to impersonate machines!
(/s, of course, but with just enough truth to it that there's probably someone somewhere out there who thinks the above statement is plausible.)
Exactly. This is as much a virus as the program I wrote as a first year CS student that rebooted the computer due to a bad pointer dereference was a virus. (That one would probably just segfault today, but I started back in the DOS dark ages . . .)