ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) program designed by OpenAI, a leading deep learning technologies developer, and it has the ability to understand human language and generate content that can appear quite realistic. Unfortunately, just like any other powerful tool, AI can be easily manipulated if used with ill-intent. A team of researchers from Princeton and OpenAI showed how ChatGPT can be used to craft convincing and personalized email scams that have a high chance of being successful in manipulating the user into opening malicious links.
Armed with our publicly available information (such as home addresses, the name of the company we work for, the names of our friends, etc.), scammers can use these details to make their emails appear more real – even if there are no grammatical mistakes or trigger words that would make the average person suspicious.
Moreover, with OpenAI’s recently released generations of AI programs like GPT-4, scammers can use these models to create varied emails with a different tone and intent, making it hard for Google’s email filters to detect them. And even with OpenAI’s strict restrictions, the communication tools keep getting jailbroken by the minute, allowing the scammers to push the envelope even further.
To protect yourself against these malicious emails, make sure to attend any phishing-awareness trainings that your company may offers. Stay wary of emails soliciting your personal information or money from so-called “authority figures” and replay back to the email sender with a direct call or an in-person meeting as a way of confirming its authenticity. Avoid clicking on suspicious links and delete any emails that have unfamiliar or unusual content.
OpenAI is a company involved in research and development of advanced artificial intelligence programs and applications, based mostly on deep learning technologies. OpenAI was founded in 2015 by director Sam Altman, entrepreneur and investor Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Amazon CTOHarper Reed and a consortium of others. OpenAI’s mission is utilize on-demand computing power and data to create a large-scale artificial intelligence systems, with the vision of advancing digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole.The team of experts at OpenAI continue to developing advanced AI bots which could lead to innovations in many industries, from healthcare to communications. They are also pushing the industry to embrace AI technology by giving away AI models, and releasing their code to the public.
