Organizations have long considered employee training a critical component of their overall cybersecurity strategy. We’ve relied on end users to recognize potential phishing attacks and avoid questionable Wi-Fi—despite the fact that humans aren’t generally as good at recognizing fraud as we believe.
Still, employees have previously had some success in spotting fishy messages by recognizing “off-sounding” language. For example, humans can notice language irregularities or spelling and grammar errors that signal phishing attempts, like a supposed email from an American bank using British English spelling.
But AI language and content generators, such as ChatGPT, will likely remove this final detectable element of scams, phishing attempts and other social engineering attacks. A supposed email from “your boss” could look more convincing than ever, and employees will undoubtedly have a harder time discerning fact from fiction. In the case of these scams, the risks of AI language tools aren’t technical. They’re social—and more alarming.
The Unique Risks Of AI-Generated Phishing Attacks
From generating blogs and computer code to crafting work emails, AI language tools can do it all. These technologies are adept at generating American English content, and they’re eerily good at emulating human language patterns. Original Source