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How Criminals Are Using Generative AI

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There’s a new report on how criminals are using generative AI tools:

Key Takeaways:

  • Adoption rates of AI technologies among criminals lag behind the rates of their industry counterparts because of the evolving nature of cybercrime.
  • Compared to last year, criminals seem to have abandoned any attempt at training real criminal large language models (LLMs). Instead, they are jailbreaking existing ones.
  • We are finally seeing the emergence of actual criminal deepfake services, with some bypassing user verification used in financial services.

Tags: AI, cybercrime, LLM

Posted on May 9, 2024 at 12:05 PM10 Comments

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