AI-generated phishing emails just got much more convincing • The Register

GPT-3 language models are being abused to do much more than write college essays, according to WithSecure researchers. The security shop's latest report [PDF] details how researchers used prompt engineering to produce spear-phishing emails, social media harassment, fake news stories and other types of content that would prove useful to cybercriminals looking to improve their online scams or simply sew chaos, albeit with mixed results in some cases. And, spoiler alert, yes, a robot did help write the report. "In addition to providing responses, GPT-3 was employed to help with definitions for the text of the commentary of this article," WithSecure's Andrew Patel and Jason Sattler wrote. For the research, the duo conducted a series of experiments to determine how changing the input to the language model affected the text output.