OpenAI’s GPT helps spammers send blast of 80,000 messages that bypassed filters

Scammers Used OpenAI to Flood the Web with SEO Spam

AkiraBot is a program that fills website comments sections and customer service chat bots with AI-generated spam messages. Its goal is simple: it wants you to sign up for an SEO scheme that costs about $30 a month. For that low price it swears it can enchant Google’s algorithms to get you on the frontpage. But it’s a scam.A new report from researchers at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne documented how scammers deployed AkiraBot, the tool’s use of …

Coalition urges California attorney general to halt OpenAI's for-profit restructuring

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OpenAI’s GPT helps spammers send blast of 80,000 messages that bypassed filters

Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters and blast unwanted messages to more than 80,000 websites in four months, researchers said Wednesday. The finding, documented in a post published by security firm SentinelOne’s SentinelLabs, underscores the double-edged sword wielded by large language models. The same thing that makes them useful for benign tasks—the breadt…

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OpenAI helps spammers flood 80 000 message sites that have bypassed the filters, generating unique messages for each recipient, in order to bypass the detection filtersAkiraBot is a structure used to mass spam cats and contact forms of websites in order to promote a poor quality SEO service. SentinelLABS estimates that AkiraBot has targeted more than 400,000 websites and managed to spam at least 80 000 websites since September...

OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters

Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters and blast unwanted messages to more than 80,000 websites in four months, researchers said Wednesday. The finding, documented in a post published by security firm SentinelOne’s SentinelLabs, underscores the double-edged sword wielded by large language models. The […] The post OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with …