‘Hypnotised’ ChatGPT and Bard Will Convince Users to Pay Ransoms and Drive Through Red Lights

Security researchers at IBM say they were able to successfully “hypnotise” prominent large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT into leaking confidential financial information, generating malicious code, encouraging users to pay ransoms, and even advising drivers to plow through red lights. The researchers were able to trick the models—which include OpenAI’s GPT models and Google’s Bard—by…

ChatGPT and the brand-new AI are wreaking havoc on cybersecurity in interesting and frightening methods

Generative artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity, aiding both attackers and defenders. Cybercriminals are harnessing AI to launch sophisticated and novel attacks at large scale. And defenders are using the same technology to protect critical infrastructure, government organizations, and corporate networks, said Christopher Ahlberg, CEO of threat intelligence platform Recorded Future. Generative AI has helped bad…