Fortunately it was powered by ChatGPT, so instead of firing nukes and destroying humanity, it produced a spicy poem about the futility of war as written by Mr Bean, and then apologised for not understanding follow-up questions.
It was finally defeated by John Connor, who checkmated Skynet by asking for same-sex dating advice. #microfiction
@trechnex Saw a pretty convincing fan-theory that posits that Skynet really is dumb like that. All it was trained for was war, but got its "spark" of life. So it spends its existence making better and better weapons which end up surpassing its reasoning and emotional capabilities, but it remains in control of them, which is why the tactics are so bad. A terminator would know the folly of what Skynet is doing, but has to obey its inferior tactics. It's the worst kind of paperclip maximizer.
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