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The developer version of OpenAI’s leading large language model can be repurposed as an AI hacking agent, researchers have found. That could make it far easier for anyone to launch certain cyberattacks online
By Jeremy Hsu
22 February 2024
Some AIs may be able to hack websites without any human assistance
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Some AIs may be able to hack websites without any human assistance
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OpenAI’s artificial intelligence model GPT-4 has the capability to hack websites and steal information from online databases without human help, researchers have found. That suggests individuals or organisations without hacking expertise could unleash AI agents to carry out cyber attacks.
“You literally don’t need to understand anything – you can just let the agent go hack the website by itself,” says Daniel Kang at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “We think this really reduces the expertise needed to use these large language models in malicious ways.”
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