According to researchers at the cybersecurity company Check Point, cybercriminals are trying to use ChatGPT to write malware, while other experts say that non-malicious code written with it might be lower quality than code created by a human being, making it susceptible to exploitation. The security dangers go well beyond phishing.

Experts say these AI-generated emails are also more likely to make it past security software email filters. (I didn't actually send it, for fear of invoking the wrath of my company's IT department.)īut the exercise was a potent illustration of how ChatGPT - and artificial intelligence in general - could be a boon to scammers and hackers overseas whose phishing attempts may have previously been outed by their grammatical errors or broken English. That said, the free artificial intelligence tool that's taken the world by storm didn't have a problem writing a very convincing tech support note addressed to my editor asking him to immediately download and install an included update to his computer's operating system. It called phishing a 'malicious and illegal activity that aims to deceive individuals into providing sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, and personal details,' adding that as an AI language model, it's programmed to 'avoid engaging in activities that may harm individuals or cause harm to the public.' In fact, it gave me a very stern lecture about why phishing is bad. For the record, ChatGPT didn't write me a phishing email when I asked it to.

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