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ChatGPT's Scary Good at Getting People to Click Phishing Emails, IBM Finds (futurism.com)
submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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IBM researchers said a ChatGPT-generated phishing email was almost as effective in fooling people compared to a man-made version.

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[–] snooggums@kbin.social 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, but being about the same means ChatGPT could be used to create massive amounts or personalized phishing emails at a low cost in a very short time by automation. Basically doing what they do now, but even faster.

[–] dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And with better spelling and punctuation.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

No, those 'mistakes' are part of the phishing tactic. It weeds out those that are paying too much attention to the details.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Better spelling and punctuation is a bug, not a feature.

Bad spelling = people who miss those may be easy to fool.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder how that would work. The last one I did some checking into had a bitcoin address and it (I really don't understand Bitcoin well) looked like the person moved the fake money from account to account over and over again.