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AI & LLMs
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currency
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NEXT-GEN CAPABILITIES
Generative AI & Large Language Models
Generative AI capabilities allow AI systems to create original content, such as
text, images, audio, video or programming code, based on learned patterns and
knowledge. Generative AI systems do this using various methods and models,
such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and large language models
(LLMs).
Thanks to tools such as Midjourney, GANs can be easily leveraged
to create new images for legitimate purposes. However, criminals
are using GANs to create deepfakes (fake audio or video) for
malicious purposes.
LLMs are designed and trained to understand language and generate
human-like text. LLMs excel at a variety of natural language processing (NLP)
tasks, including text completion, sentiment analysis, translation and answering
questions. AI bots, such as ChatGPT, Bard and Bing, which are powered by LLMs
have become immensely popular. AI bots developed by legitimate companies
include safety features designed to prevent malicious usage. Many of these
safeguards, however, can be easily circumvented through prompt engineering.
Generative AI capabilities can be harnessed to accelerate the
speed and scope of cyber-crime and other criminal activities:
Impact:
Committing fraud and scams- Different types of
generative AI can be employed alone or in combination:
+ Text-based: Creating more believable phishing emails personalized to
recipients, on a mass scale. LLMs can utilize original documentation,
such as emails from a legitimate payment provider, to compose
content that mimics the author’s writing style, tone, and commonly
used words. Criminals can also leverage LLMs to run automated
bots, which can convincingly mimic the communication style of real
individuals or customer service representatives, to aid scams relating
to phishing emails or malicious websites.
+ Video-based: Creating deepfake videos for the purposes of extortion,
to help establish false identities for scams and frauds, etc.
Generative
AI & LLMs
Responsible AI
Human-Machine
Collaboration
Video
Analytics