The FBI said Friday that it is already seeing signs that bad actors around the world are using artificial intelligence as a tool to help them commit crimes.
The FBI, led by Director Christopher Wray, says artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a tool for criminals.
Those attacks can include the production and distribution of deepfake videos used to harass and extort victims, something one official said would become more commonplace as . AI is also making it easier for criminals without any technical background to commit cybercrimes. "For example, the FBI has observed the proliferation of fraudulent AI generated websites replete with engaging, engaging content postings and multimedia which are infected with malware and used to deceive unsuspecting online users," the official added."Some of these sites or pages have more than a million followers and significant amounts of user engagement."
While this is something the FBI has observed, the official was unaware of any prosecutions related to this kind of activity. But the official said it’s"something that we’re actively investigating.""As researchers have successfully demonstrated AI models are often vulnerable to a number of adversarial machine learning attacks, such as poisoning evasion, privacy attacks during both the training as well as the deployment phases of AI," the official said.
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