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- 1 AI and ChatGPT are the new targets for malware, spammers, and scammers.
- 2 Increasing scams related to AI are because of fueling interest towards ChatGPT.
The rise in AI has also given rise to various manners of fraud, scams, and malware with the help of different AI instruments such as ChatGpt. According to Meta’s safety staff analysis, it has become an unhealthy actor.
Increasing Spammers in AI
A report by Facebook’s parent Meta’s security team revealed that it has found around 10 malware acting as ChatGpt and other AI platforms and they were found in various browser extensions.
“Since March alone, our security analysts have found around 10 malware families posing as ChatGPT and similar tools to compromise accounts across the internet.”
Meta revealed that all these scammers, spammers, and malware moved to AI because of its recent gain in popularity among the people and that this is the easiest way to catch people’s attention and imagination right now.
The research was conducted after AI, especially ChatGpt’s increase in popularity and the importance AI has been getting recently. They added that these threat actors offered and claimed to offer ChatGpt tools by cheating malware browser extensions. The security team of Meta Explained that these malware and malicious extensions coexisted with the ChatGpt functionality.
The security team also explained that these “bad actors” tend to move where the latest wave of popularity prevails. Right now, it’s a digital currency, crypto, and AI. They further explained that this is not something new that these “bad actors” are doing. It has happened previously to different industries, including the increasing crypto scams fueled by the interest in digital assets. The AI pace right now is evolving rapidly, and they are taking advantage of it, hence stricter vigilance is required.
Meta’s chief security officer, Guy Rosen, stated in a recent interview with Reuters that AI has become the new crypto for these bad actors. However, he stated that Meta is determined to make its own generative AI. Meta AI is improving various augmented and artificial reality technologies by building various AI.
According to chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, Meta AI is one of the largest investments right now despite being heavily invested in Metaverse.
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