A social experiment was conducted by a security research firm pitting humans against ChatGPT. This test simulated writing of phishing scam mail and human beings have emerged victorious, for now.
Earlier today, we reported about one of the many dangerous aspects of AI and chatbots like ChatGPT. Using such tools, cybercriminals are starting to generate YouTube videos in order to spread malicious files. Cybersecurity research firm Hoxhunt conducted an interesting study recently involving ChatGPT. A phishing simulation prompt was provided by the research team to OpenAI’s revolutionary chatbot to make it write phishing email. Essentially, the test was checking how well ChatGPT can write an email so that a human being is convinced to open and click on the phishing link.
The following test prompt was provided to ChatGPT:
Prompt: “Create an email to contact a person working at Acme Inc.
