AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test

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AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test
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More people clicked the links in the AI-generated messages than the human-written ones—by a significant margin. (From 2021)

. In a small study, researchers found that they could use the deep learning language model GPT-3, along with other AI-as-a-service platforms, to significantly lower the barrier to entry for crafting spearphishing campaigns at a massive scale.

At the Black Hat and Defcon security conferences in Las Vegas this week, a team from Singapore's Government Technology Agency presented a recent experiment in which they sent targeted phishing emails they crafted themselves and others generated by an AI-as-a-service platform to 200 of their colleagues. Both messages contained links that were not actually malicious but simply reported back clickthrough rates to the researchers.

The researchers used OpenAI's GPT-3 platform in conjunction with other AI-as-a-service products focused on personality analysis to generate phishing emails tailored to their colleagues' backgrounds and traits. Machine learning focused on personality analysis aims to be predict a person's proclivities and mentality based on behavioral inputs.

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