ChatGPT's popularity not only made people more aware of the possibility of artificial intelligence changing the world, but also made some criminals "free to drill."

Recently, there have been media reports that criminals have bypassed website security mechanisms and used ChatGPT to quickly write fraud software to commit fraud, such as writing phishing emails to defraud personal information; Generate encryption tools to remotely lock other people's computers for blackmail; Generate attack scripts, carry out identity theft attacks on network users, and more.

Technological advances in artificial intelligence are quietly fueling romance scams

Jeff Clune, an associate professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, says advances in artificial intelligence are quietly fueling romance scams. Scammers now have more tools in their toolbox to trick people, especially those who are unaware of the latest technological advances.

Such advances include speech simulators, face generators and deep fakes - where existing images or videos are used to create fake but believable video clips. Another set of advances are chatbots, such as ChatGPT, which can generate human-like text responses across a variety of online platforms. The big difference between ChatGPT and other chatbots is that it can actually ask you questions, answer back and forth, and improvise and improvise according to your questions.

So the voice you hear on the other end of the phone might not be who you think it is, the person you're texting with might actually be a bot, and the face in the photo or video on your favorite dating app might not even exist...... Fraud schemes often involve convincing victims to enter into virtual online relationships in order to build trust and affection. Scammers then use this emotional leverage to solicit money, cryptocurrencies, gifts, or investments.

Clune said hoaxes that exploit certain aspects of AI technology still require a person to operate, but that could soon change. "Even though scams are very common now, there is a price to be paid for doing so because people have to sit there and kill time. But to be able to have AI do this for a million people a day and then sit back and watch the money roll in would be terrifying. And that's exactly what this technology can do."

How to guard against romantic scams?

Despite repeated public warnings from the police, dating scams still work. The use of dating apps and social media has exploded, expanding the reach of scammers and affecting victims around the world, who in some cases can lose their life savings in a single attack. So how can the general public guard against such romantic scams?

Regardless of whether your screen is opposite a real person or a robot, always adhere to a principle - "meet and talk, do not talk about money." That is to say, friends meet first, meet and then talk, remit money. Online information is difficult to distinguish between true and false, in the case of unable to confirm and identify each other's identity, do not believe each other's sweet words and various rhetoric. Especially have not met friends, do not have money with each other.

In addition, do not believe the "investment", "financial management" in the mouth of online love objects, do not be confused by the initial small grace small Hui, these are the common modus operandi of scammers! If you listen to ta's words to invest, but find that the investment platform can not withdraw cash, do not believe that ta said that you can withdraw a certain amount of money in time to stop loss protection money. Once it is found that it is a scam, it is necessary to keep relevant evidence (such as chat records, mobile phone numbers, remittance records, etc.) and report it to the local police at the first time.