Or the changing climate
Dr. Ian Malcolm : Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and um, screaming.
What with 6-year-olds shooting teachers and Real Americans™ vying to turn the U.S. into Syria (or Somalia), House Republicans, antivaxxers, authoritarian mobs, and climate change will have to compete to be the final straw that takes us out.
ChatGPT has received lots of gushing press recently touting the tantalizing possibilities for artificial intelligence (AI). Have these people never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Terminator, or The Lawnmower Man ?
Perhaps we as a species are too naive to survive.
Malicious hackers are already using the flashy new AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to create new low-level cyber tools, including malware and encryption scripts, according to a recent report.
Why it matters: Security experts have been warning that OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool could help cybercriminals speed up their attacks, and it all happened fast.
Driving the news: Researchers at Check Point Research said Friday they’ve spotted malicious hackers using ChatGPT to develop basic hacking tools.
The Check Point report finds where ChatGPT has been employed recently to write file-stealing and encryption malware. “All of the afore-mentioned [encryption] code can of course be used in a benign fashion. However, this script can easily be modified to encrypt someone’s machine completely without any user interaction. For example, it can potentially turn the code into ransomware if the script and syntax problems are fixed.”
Another example spotted on New Year’s Eve involves a cybercriminal creating “a Dark Web marketplace” using ChatGPT. Plus, “several threat actors opened discussions in additional underground forums that focused on how to use ChatGPT for fraudulent schemes.”
Just wait until Russia’s Internet Research Agency gets hold of ChatGPT.