If you get a Facebook ad to download Google’s AI chatbot, Bard, you’re probably about to get hacked.
Ads for fake versions of Google’s generative AI tool, Bard, are showing up on Facebook to steal social media accounts of U.S. small businesses, according to a lawsuit from Google filed Monday.
The phony Facebook ads ask users to download Bard, but the AI doesn’t need to be downloaded – it’s a completely web-based product. Naive users actually downloaded malware that stole social media credentials and compromised their accounts. Google’s lawsuit aims to disable any current domains related to the trap and bar the alleged fraudsters, located in Vietnam and India, from setting up any more. This is considered the first lawsuit to protect users of a major tech company’s flagship AI product, Google’s general counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado said to the Wall Street Journal Monday.
