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AI tools are making it easier than ever for online criminals to trick people and steal money and valuable confidential data.
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—both the untargeted spam kind and more sophisticated, targeted attacks designed to steal money and sensitive information.