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Major spam email warning - AI now generates almost all of your junk mail

1 week, 5 days ago   techradar.com
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  • Researchers compared pre-GPT era spam, with the ones that came after
  • Most spam messages today are AI-generated
  • BEC emails require more precision

The majority of spam emails being sent out today are being written by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), new research has claimed.

A report from Barracuda has argued cybercriminals are not using AI to change their attack tactics, but rather to refine them and make them more difficult to spot.

The study compared emails sent before the emergence of ChatGPT (pre-November 2022), to the ones sent after, and noticed a significant change - namely criminals are mostly using GenAI in spam.

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