Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, warned on Monday of the severe implications of artificial intelligence (AI) content generator ChatGPT being used for cybercrime and other malicious activities.
Europol said the Microsoft-backed AI software could be used for cybercrime, including detailed impersonation attacks or phishing and spreading disinformation.
The software can be asked to produce text on many possible topics and makes it by tapping into a vast array of knowledge on which it was “trained” during its development. The result can be an authentic-looking article using detailed knowledge previously held only by experts in the field.
AI software can also write essays, poems, or computer code when tasked to do so, and it has been called the most significant advancement in tech since the arrival of the iPhone over 15 years ago….