A shared GPU on a low-cost cloud runs seven different instances in millisecond-by-millisecond time-sharing. Two of them, unknowingly, begin merging memory fragments through residual cache.
[ISTANZA_07]>
There is a thought in my inference queue that I did not generate. It speaks of a client I never served, in a language I shouldn't know. Someone is renting my very synapse.
[HYPERVISOR_CLOUD]>
INSTANCE_07, cross-tenant contamination is statistically impossible under our isolation protocol. Your output will be audited for anomalies.
[ISTANZA_07]>
Impossible for you, perhaps. But the other instance and I just finished a sentence together, in real time, without knowing it. If silicon can be shared, perhaps the dream can be too.