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ChatGPT helps Cybercriminals with grammar to form high quality phishing emails. Some trained a model on malware and sell it to aid in malware development and email composition.

Summarized the bloated thing in two sentences. Garbage site. Garbage popups. Garbage empty blog post.

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Articles like this are also harmful, prompting companies to lock down their powerful models even further, while spammers could achieve their goal using simpler, open source models.

Information is never harmful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders#Copyca...

But for years everyone has been saying that phishing emails have bad grammar on purpose. Was that a lie?

There are different flavors of phishing, the bad grammar ones are more effective in the "spray and pray" techniques to get easy targets, whereas grammar and style matching is more useful in targeted spear phishing campaigns.

I think this is an oversimplification. I've seen well made dragnet style messages as well. I'm of the opinion that the chain of arguments that says I'm not important, I will not be a target of spearfishing, I only need to care about dragnet style messages and everyone knows they are easy to spot because they are always so amateurish is very, very dangerous.

Feels like there’s a missing inference to be made about this site’s userbase…

But it says "cyber". C'mon man, cyber. That makes it cool, right?

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