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> I’m no AI or machine learning expert so I don’t know how it works. But I am also worried that spammers could use ChatGPT to get around Gmail and Outlook’s spam filters.

This will not only increase the spam-problem, but will most likely be used to scale and do targeted phishing attack as well. I wrote an extensive article[0] where I analyzed this. And to no surprise, GPT-3 can be used to generate dynamic phishing campaigns on the fly in multiple languages, classify email responses, improve email thread hijacking attacks etc.

[0] https://www.xorlab.com/en/blog/why-ai-powered-phishing-will-...



On the other hand, ChatGPT becomes a very convenient tool for generating example data to train the ML component of the spam filter on.


something.. something... arms race


generative... adversarial... network


something... something... technology is not neutral.


Maybe the Amish were right after all.


There is a nonzero probability that a new technology will destroy the world. So at some point, the Amish will be right.




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