Cybercriminals are touting large language models that could help them with phishing or creating malware. But the AI chatbots could just be their own kind of scam.

IT DIDN’T TAKE long. Just months after OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot upended the startup economy, cybercriminals and hackers are claiming to have created their own versions of the text-generating technology. The systems could, theoretically at least, supercharge criminals’ ability to write malware or phishing emails that trick people into handing over their login information.

  • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t see this as a bad thing.

    Malware that breaks due to bugs any normal sane developer would have detected.

    My experience with chatGPT, it’s a great TOOL. But, the code it generates, is very frequently incorrect. But, the problem is, the code it generates LOOKS good. And, will actually likely work, mostly.

    • mobyduck648@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      That’s fundamentally why you can’t replace a software engineer with ChatGPT, only a software engineer has the skillset to verify the code isn’t shit even if it superficially works.

      • HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yup.

        I find it can be quite a useful tool. But, I also know when to spot its mistakes. I had it generate and cleanup some code the other day, and found 4 or 5 pretty big issues with it, which would have been hardly detectable by a more novice developer.

        After, telling it about its own issues, it was able to identify and correct them.

        Its, kind of like mentoring a new developer.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        I’m not sure being used for a stated purpose (like generating code) in a way that you just don’t agree with counts as a “vulnerability”, though. Same thing as me using a drill to put a hole in a person; that’s not a malfunction, I’m just an asshole.

        We’re talking about making an AI which can’t be misused at this point, and of course that’s a famously hard problem, especially when we don’t really understand how the basic technology works.