{"id":88591,"date":"2023-03-28T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/?p=88591"},"modified":"2023-03-28T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T07:45:00","slug":"europol-warns-cops-to-prep-for-malicious-ai-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudnewshub.com\/?p=88591","title":{"rendered":"Europol warns cops to prep for malicious AI abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement, or Europol, has made a series of recommendations to the law enforcement community should prepare for the positive and negative impacts that large language models<\/a> (LLMs) \u2013 the artificial intelligence (AI) models underpinning products such as ChatGPT<\/a> that process, manipulate and generate text \u2013 will have on the criminal landscape.<\/p>\n

In the report ChatGPT \u2013 the impact of large language models on law enforcement<\/a><\/i>, Europol\u2019s Innovation Lab compiled the findings of a number of workshops and expert criminologists to explore how criminals \u2013 not just cyber criminals \u2013 can abuse LLMs in their work, and how LLMs might help investigators in future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe aim of this report is to raise awareness about the potential misuse of LLMs, to open a dialogue with AI companies to help them build in better safeguards, and to promote the development of safe and trustworthy AI systems,\u201d Europol said.<\/p>\n

The Europol researchers described the outlook for the potential exploitation of LLMs and AIs by criminals as \u201cgrim\u201d. In common with other researchers<\/a> who have looked into the technology, they found three key areas of concern:<\/p>\n

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  1. The ability of LLMs to reproduce language patterns and impersonate the style of specific individuals or groups already means it can draft highly realistic text at scale to generate convincing phishing lures.<\/li>\n
  2. The ability of LLMs to produce authentic-appearing text at speed and scale makes it well-suited for exploitation to create propaganda and disinformation.<\/li>\n
  3. The ability of LLMs to produce potentially usable code in different programming makes it potentially interesting to cyber criminals to use as a tool in creating new malwares and ransomware lockers. Note that the cyber security community regards this impact as a little more long-term at this point<\/a>, although this may change as the technology develops.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Europol made a number of recommendations for law enforcement professionals to incorporate into their thinking to be better prepared for the impact of LLMs:<\/p>\n