How will ChatGPT threaten cyberspace?

ChatGPT has been making a lot of noise lately. ChatGPT, which has been making waves around the world, surpassed 100 million monthly users in January. It has set a record for the fastest subscriber growth since its launch in late 2022.
Just as ChatGPT has made our daily written tasks easier and saved time, ChatGPT is also not very safe for our cybersecurity. So how exactly is ChatGPT posing a danger to us in the cyber world? Let’s find out.
What is ChatGPT?
First, let’s start with a little idea about ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a type of chatbot. It was launched in November 2022. It is built on the broad language model of OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 family. ChatGPT is the most advanced of these systems. This chatbot is capable of creating any type of text completely like a human. When asked a question, it can quickly generate structured, fairly simple, and understandable answers to that question, which sets it apart from other chatbots.
Virtual assistants like Alexa collect search engine results and generate voice-activated answers by repeating them. These assistants still work using NLP and other AI technologies. But ChatGPT is much ahead of them. It does not care about search engines. Instead, it generates answers to questions by finding relevant information from machine learning data.
Many cybersecurity analysts are wondering how this small difference can be used to exploit digital security. If analysts can use ChatGPT to identify the source of cyber threats, hackers can also use the data obtained from this program to hack. The ultimate impact of this chatbot can be positive or negative, which really depends on its user.
How ChatGPT can threaten cybersecurity
It will help write more realistic phishing emails than before. It will be able to create personalized emails according to the person or organization. As a result, the recipients of the email can share their personal information, such as credit card numbers, passwords, etc. without any suspicion.
It will be able to automatically contact victims infected with ransomware and extort money. As a result, it will become more difficult to catch the hacker.
It will help create malware. Although ChatGPT was asked to create ransomware code for an experiment, it refused to create it. But some experts claim that ChatGPT was able to create it in a different way. Software company CyberArk was able to successfully bypass the program and create polymorphic malware. They were also able to use ChatGPT to change the code and make it difficult to detect. They were also able to create programs that could be used in malware and ransomware attacks.
Final Words
While new technologies bring us blessings, they often bring us curses. ChatGPT is a blessing for us, but it is also a curse if it is used for malicious purposes. Therefore, we have to ensure security in cyberspace, and this is possible by using ChatGPT for good purposes. It should also be kept in mind that ChatGPT is not the only AI language model that can pose this potential threat to cyberspace. Rather, GPT-3 or the latest addition GPT-4, which is made with other natural languages, are also a threat to cyberspace.