OpenAI said it terminated accounts of five state-affiliated threat groups who were using the company’s large language models to lay the groundwork for malicious hacking campaigns. The disruption was done in collaboration with Microsoft threat researchers. The threat groups — linked to Russia, Iran, North Korea and the People’s Republic of China — were using OpenAI for a variety of precursor tasks, including open source queries, translation, searching for errors in code and running basic coding tasks, according to OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Cybersecurity and AI analysts warn the threat activity uncovered by OpenAI and Microsoft is just a precursor for state-linked and criminal groups to rapidly adopt generative AI to scale their attack capabilities.
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