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Microsoft says it caught hackers from China, Russia and Iran using its AI tools (www.reuters.com)
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Microsoft said it had tracked hacking groups affiliated with Russian military intelligence, Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and the Chinese and North Korean governments as they tried to perfect their hacking campaigns using large language models. Those computer programs, often called artificial intelligence, draw on massive amounts of text to generate human-sounding responses.

The allegation that state-backed hackers have been caught using AI tools to help boost their spying capabilities is likely to underline concerns about the rapid proliferation of the technology and its potential for abuse. Senior cybersecurity officials in the West have been warning since last year that rogue actors were abusing such tools, although specifics have, until now, been thin on the ground.

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[-] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

That was a confusing headline: I had no idea if it was saying that MS used AI tools to catch hackers or if it meant that MS discovered that hackers were using the tools. It's the latter, btw

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