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OOPS, CHATGPT CAN BE HACKED TO OFFER ILLICIT AI-GENERATED CONTENT INCLUDING
MALWARE

By Jorge Jimenez
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This dark version of ChatGPT can craft phishing emails or write code for
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Remember a while ago when OpenAI Ceo, Sam Altman, said that the misuse of
artificial intelligence could be "lights out for all?" (opens in new tab) Well,
that wasn't such an unreasonable statement considering now that hackers are
selling tools to get past ChatGPT's restrictions to make it generate malicious
content.



Checkpoint (opens in new tab) reports (via Ars Technica (opens in new tab)) that
cybercriminals have found a fairly easy way to bypass ChatGPT content moderation
barriers and make a quick buck doing so. For less than $6, you can have ChatGPT
generate malicious code or a ton of persuasive copy for phishing emails. 



These hackers did it by using OpenAI's API to create special bots in the popular
messaging app, Telegram, that can access a restriction-free version of ChatGPT
through the app. Cybercriminals are charging customers as low as $5.50 for every
100 queries and giving potential customers examples of the harmful things that
can be done with it. 




Other hackers found a way to get past ChatGPT's protections by creating a
special script (again using OpenAI's API) that was made public on GitHub. This
dark version of ChatGPT can generate a template for a phishing email to
impersonate a business and your bank, even with instructions on where to best
place the phishing link in the email.

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Even scarier is that you can use the Chatbot to create a malware code or improve
an existing one by simply asking it to. Checkpoint had written before (opens in
new tab) about how easy for those without any coding experience to generate some
fairly nasty malware, especially on early versions of ChatGPT, whose
restrictions only became tighter toward creating malicious content.





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OpenAI's ChatGPT technology will be featured in the upcoming Microsoft Bing
search engine update, which will feature an AI chat to provide more robust and
easy-to-digest answers to more open-ended questions. This, too, comes with its
own set of issues regarding the use of copyrighted materials (opens in new tab).

We've written before how easy it's been to abuse AI tools like using voice
cloning to make celeb soundalikes say awful things (opens in new tab). So, it
was only a matter of time before some bad actors found a way to make it easier
to do bad things. You know, aside from making AI do their homework (opens in new
tab). 


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Jorge is a hardware writer from the enchanted lands of New Jersey. When he's not
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gaming hardware from laptops with the latest mobile GPUs to gaming chairs with
built-in back massagers. He's been covering games and tech for nearly ten years
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