Can AI chatbots be used to improve the skills of cyberattackers? Yes, according to both Microsoft and OpenAI, and reported by The Verge:

Microsoft and OpenAI are revealing today that hackers are already using large language models like ChatGPT to refine and improve their existing cyberattacks. In newly published research, Microsoft and OpenAI have detected attempts by Russian, North Korean, Iranian, and Chinese-backed groups using tools like ChatGPT for research into targets, to improve scripts, and to help build social engineering techniques.

Despite safeguards and ‘guardrails’ meant to prevent such abuses, a poor hacker has the resources at their fingertips to become a much more effective one. Hyperempowerment much?

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