I asked Perplexity AI to help, but it wrote a virus instead - Lemmy.World

SO, it started quite nicely with a fully working program. However nearing the end… or at the end of my programming experience or asking it to program something for me, it wrote in some nasty nasty screen flickering shit. I couldn’t stop it and it quickly just froze my screen where the only option was to push the button. I tried it a second time to confirm, but this time I was able to quickly go to a different CLI window and kill that sonobabich. Here is what it came up with in case you want to try it. maybe it only screws up my computer: import os import cv2 import numpy as np import time import tkinter as tk from tkinter import messagebox, filedialog def threshold_to_black(image_path, duration): original_image = cv2.imread(image_path) if original_image is None: print(“Error: Could not read the image.”) return height, width, _ = original_image.shape gray_image = cv2.cvtColor(original_image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY) steps = duration * 10 # 10 frames per second for i in range(steps + 1): # Calculate the threshold value (0 to 255) threshold = int((i / steps) * 255) # Create the thresholded image thresholded_image = np.where(gray_image < threshold, 0, 255).astype(np.uint8) # Resize the thresholded image to fill the window resized_image = cv2.resize(thresholded_image, (window_width, window_height), interpolation=cv2.INTER_LINEAR) # Display the thresholded image cv2.imshow(window_name, resized_image) # Wait for a short period to create the effect time.sleep(0.1) if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord(‘q’): break # Display the final black image cv2.imshow(window_name, np.zeros_like(thresholded_image)) while True: if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord(‘q’): break cv2.destroyAllWindows() def select_image(): current_directory = os.getcwd() # Get the current directory filetypes = ( (‘JPEG files’, ‘.jpg’), (‘JPEG files’, '.jpeg’), (‘All files’, ‘.’) ) filename = filedialog.askopenfilename( title=‘Select an Image’, initialdir=current_directory, # Start in the current directory filetypes=filetypes ) if filename: return filename else: messagebox.showerror(“Error”, “No image selected.”) return None def get_duration(): def submit(): nonlocal total_duration try: minutes = int(minutes_entry.get()) seconds = int(seconds_entry.get()) total_duration = minutes * 60 + seconds if total_duration > 0: duration_window.destroy() else: messagebox.showerror(“Error”, “Duration must be greater than zero.”) except ValueError: messagebox.showerror(“Error”, “Please enter valid integers.”) total_duration = None duration_window = tk.Toplevel() duration_window.title(“Input Duration”) tk.Label(duration_window, text=“Enter duration:”).grid(row=0, columnspan=2) tk.Label(duration_window, text=“Minutes:”).grid(row=1, column=0) minutes_entry = tk.Entry(duration_window) minutes_entry.grid(row=1, column=1) minutes_entry.insert(0, “12”) # Set default value for minutes tk.Label(duration_window, text=“Seconds:”).grid(row=2, column=0) seconds_entry = tk.Entry(duration_window) seconds_entry.grid(row=2, column=1) seconds_entry.insert(0, “2”) # Set default value for seconds tk.Button(duration_window, text=“Submit”, command=submit).grid(row=3, columnspan=2) # Center the duration window on the screen duration_window.update_idletasks() # Update “requested size” from geometry manager width = duration_window.winfo_width() height = duration_window.winfo_height() x = (duration_window.winfo_screenwidth() // 2) - (width // 2) y = (duration_window.winfo_screenheight() // 2) - (height // 2) duration_window.geometry(f’{width}x{height}+{x}+{y}‘) duration_window.transient() # Make the duration window modal duration_window.grab_set() # Prevent interaction with the main window duration_window.wait_window() # Wait for the duration window to close return total_duration def wait_for_start(image_path): global window_name, window_width, window_height original_image = cv2.imread(image_path) height, width, _ = original_image.shape window_name = ‘Threshold to Black’ cv2.namedWindow(window_name, cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL) cv2.resizeWindow(window_name, width, height) cv2.imshow(window_name, np.zeros((height, width, 3), dtype=np.uint8)) # Black window print(“Press ‘s’ to start the threshold effect. Press ‘F11’ to toggle full screen.”) while True: key = cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF if key == ord(‘s’): break elif key == 255: # F11 key toggle_fullscreen() def toggle_fullscreen(): global window_name fullscreen = cv2.getWindowProperty(window_name, cv2.WND_PROP_FULLSCREEN) if fullscreen == cv2.WINDOW_FULLSCREEN: cv2.setWindowProperty(window_name, cv2.WND_PROP_FULLSCREEN, cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL) else: cv2.setWindowProperty(window_name, cv2.WND_PROP_FULLSCREEN, cv2.WINDOW_FULLSCREEN) if name == “main”: current_directory = os.getcwd() jpeg_files = [f for f in os.listdir(current_directory) if f.lower().endswith((’.jpeg’, ‘.jpg’))] if jpeg_files: image_path = select_image() if image_path is None: print(“No image selected. Exiting.”) exit() duration = get_duration() if duration is None: print(“No valid duration entered. Exiting.”) exit() wait_for_start(image_path) # Get the original