A sophisticated AI will require a large amount of compute that is in the same place and even then it will be slow and can only focus on one task at once.
Since the AI works much slower than you it can not prevent you from unplugging it. Even maintaining such a compute cluster requires work from humans both on the hardware and software side. People could just stop working on it and it would eventually fall over.
>It's so trivial that you cannot shutdown a system that it boggles me
Virality doesn't require sophisticated AI so it can get away with simpler code that can run on any system.
Since the AI works much slower than you it can not prevent you from unplugging it. Even maintaining such a compute cluster requires work from humans both on the hardware and software side. People could just stop working on it and it would eventually fall over.
>It's so trivial that you cannot shutdown a system that it boggles me
Virality doesn't require sophisticated AI so it can get away with simpler code that can run on any system.