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ChatGPT makers block government-affiliated hackers
ChatGPT sparked the hype about artificial intelligence just over a year ago. photo
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To improve their attacks, hackers from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are said to have used the chatbot ChatGPT. Now the developer company OpenAi has blocked the hackers’ corresponding accounts.
Government-affiliated hackers from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia have technology behind the chatbot as customers Used ChatGPT to improve their attacks. In cooperation with Microsoft, the accounts of five hacker groups were terminated, said the ChatGPT developer company OpenAi.
The hackers primarily used artificial intelligence technology to automate software development. Some of the group also used it to translate technical documentation and search for publicly available information. The Iranian and North Korean hackers also had the AI write texts for phishing attacks. In such attacks, victims are tricked into entering their login information on bogus hacker websites using emails that look deceptively real.
At the same time, OpenAI said that the discovery confirms the assessment that current AI technology is only partially more useful for developing cyberattacks than conventional tools. Microsoft also emphasized that it had not yet seen any new attacks using AI.
ChatGPT sparked the hype about artificial intelligence just over a year ago. Such AI chatbots are trained with enormous amounts of information and can formulate texts at the linguistic level of a human, write software code and summarize information. The principle behind this is that they estimate, word by word, how a sentence should continue. A disadvantage of this is that the software can sometimes give completely wrong answers, even if it was only based on correct information. However, software development is now often successfully automated with the help of AI.