How Criminals Are Using Generative AI
There’s a new report on how criminals are using generative AI tools:
Key Takeaways:
- Adoption rates of AI technologies among criminals lag behind the rates of their industry counterparts because of the evolving nature of cybercrime.
- Compared to last year, criminals seem to have abandoned any attempt at training real criminal large language models (LLMs). Instead, they are jailbreaking existing ones.
- We are finally seeing the emergence of actual criminal deepfake services, with some bypassing user verification used in financial services.
Echo of past arising • May 9, 2024 1:03 PM
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From the extract
“We are finally seeing the emergence of actual criminal deepfake services, with some bypassing user verification used in financial services.”
Perhaps not surprising when you consider from another recent report that’s been mentioned on MSM it’s been said the number one most profitable crime currently is fraud.
Though other figures say other types of more traditional crime like burglary have not gone down.
At the moment it can be said that online crime is safer for criminals than other forms of crime so it’s not surprising that they would start into AI as a tool for crime.
I suspect what may be holding things back is the fact that AI systems are not that easy to access, nor access safely from the criminal perspective, though this will change.
Also creating your own AI LLM system is not cheap and has high electrical power and cooling demands. So are not yet something for Grandma’s back bedroom or similar. Especially when you consider high electrical power and water has been associated with “illegal herb growing” so authorities are already on the lookout for it.
This in effect turns the LLM into a sitting duck for authorities to find…
But I do expect this to change if the AI hype bubble does not burst.
I guess one question we should think about is,
How long before an AI can sit in on a Zoom meeting?
Because as finance related crime rises, banks will move towards interactive online “proof of life and ID”.