AI tool or scammers’ playground? ChatGPT exploited for fraudulent activities: Expert

AI tool or scammers’ playground? ChatGPT exploited for fraudulent activities: Expert

Despite ChatGPT’s potential to benefit daily lives including helping users create well-written texts and letters, some of its users are targeting internet users for personal information and monetary gain.

Since its launch in November of last year, ChatGPT has rapidly gained widespread popularity among users across the world. However, several reports have emerged in recent weeks suggesting that scammers are misusing the language-based AI platform.

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Criminals can feed examples of text from entities or people they seek to emulate, and ChatGPT is equipped to create convincing messages based on them.

ChatGPTis being used by scammers to create phishing attacks and write convincing scam emails, leading to a rise in concerns among the public and cybersecurity experts about identifying these scams before people fall prey to them.

But this concept is not a new one, said Maher Yamout, Senior Security Researcher at Kaspersky.

AI has been used by scammers for some time now, especially with deepfakes, a type of synthetic media that is generated using AItechniques such as machine learning and neural networks to create a video or audio clip that appears to show a person saying or doing something that they