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mtgp1000 | 5 years ago

Define misuse.

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SaltyLemonZest|5 years ago

One obvious example would be to fully automate social engineering email scams. Imagine how much disruption it would cause if spearphishing became as common as robocalls have become post-automation.

reportgunner|5 years ago

Wouldn't the same AI be able to detect that the text was generated by itself ?

admax88q|5 years ago

If it became that common it would quickly cease to be that effective. Spearfishing works because it's rare, so it doesn't automatically set off your bullshit detector. Most people don't fall for "cheap vi@gra" emails anymore.

Social engineering in general is effective because it's rare enough that people don't feel the need to develop policies and strategies for preventing it.

albntomat0|5 years ago

For example, convincing and hard to detect fake content generation on Facebook/reddit/etc