Supercharged scams
# Scammers Are Using AI to Run Cons at Scale Criminals have figured out how to use AI tools like ChatGPT to write convincing fake emails and scam messages much faster than they could by hand, making it cheaper and easier to trick people into giving up money or personal information. Because AI can generate thousands of variations automatically, scammers can now target way more people with personalized-sounding messages that are harder to spot as fake. This is forcing banks, email providers, and security companies to develop new defenses to catch AI-generated scams before they reach you.
When ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, it opened people’s eyes to how easily generative AI could churn out vast amounts of human-seeming text from simple prompts. This quickly caught the attention of criminals, who soon began using large language models to produce malicious emails—bot
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