{"id":76320,"date":"2023-03-28T14:32:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T11:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=76320"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:45:40","slug":"europol-warns-of-the-dangers-of-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/europol-warns-of-the-dangers-of-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Europol warns of the dangers of ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europol warned of potential misuse of the ChatGPT chatbot in attempts at phishing, disinformation and cybercrime. <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/europol-sounds-alarm-about-criminal-use-chatgpt-sees-grim-outlook-2023-03-27\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener nofollow\\\" title=\\\"\\\">Reuters<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cAs the capabilities of LLMs, such as ChatGPT, continue to improve, the potential exploitation of these types of AI systems by criminals yields grim prospects,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The agency published its first technical report, in which the authors highlighted malicious use of the chatbot in three spheres of crime:<\/p>\n<ul class=\\\"wp-block-list\\\">\n<li>phishing;<\/li>\n<li>targeted harassment of victims;<\/li>\n<li>creation and dissemination of disinformation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cThe ability of ChatGPT to generate highly realistic text makes it a useful tool for phishing,\u201d Europol said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the report, the bot&#8217;s ability to reproduce linguistic styles to imitate the speech of specific individuals or groups enables criminals to target victims.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement also believes that ChatGPT&#8217;s ability to generate convincingly authentic text at scale makes it an ideal tool for propaganda and disinformation:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p>\u201cIt allows users to generate and disseminate messages that reflect a specific narrative, with relatively little effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Europol, criminals with limited technical know-how can turn to ChatGPT to create malicious code.<\/p>\n<p>In March, U.S. authorities reported a rise in cases <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/scammers-use-ai-to-imitate-the-voices-of-victims-relatives\">the use of speech-imitation technologies<\/a> to extort relatives of victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europol warned of potential misuse of the ChatGPT chatbot in phishing, disinformation and cybercrime attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1201,733],"class_list":["post-76320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chatbots","tag-europe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76322,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76320\/revisions\/76322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}