In a bold twist of fate, AI researchers have unearthed vulnerabilities in the very software frameworks designed to make machines smarter than us. Yes, just when you thought your fancy GPU was only interested in rendering your high-definition cat videos, it turns out it’s also moonlighting as a potential security hazard. It seems ZeroMQ and Python’s pickle deserialization are the mischievous culprits, pulling off their best impression of a clown car at a cybersecurity conference.

Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft, usually locked in an epic battle on who can collect the most data about you, have now united under the banner of ‘Oops, We Did It Again.’ Their AI inference frameworks, which use machine learning to predict everything from your next online purchase to whether you actually like pineapple on pizza, were found to have vulnerabilities so severe, they make a Windows update seem like a day at the spa.

While open-source projects like PyTorch are busy perfecting the art of subtly encouraging developers to fix their code with positive reinforcement (also known as ‘Hope Protocol’), researchers have reported that the real threat lies in our collective addiction to convenience and sneaky coding practices. The AI frameworks are now on hiatus, presumably to contemplate their errors while nibbling on binary cookies. Meanwhile, IT departments everywhere are considering a collective break to join the circus, which, ironically, seems safer and less chaotic.