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John Licato, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Director of AMHR Lab, University of South Florida

AI-generated spam may soon be flooding your inbox -- and it will be personalized to be especially persuasive

AI may make spam more pervasive than ever. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of can’t-miss investments choke email inboxes. Improvements to spam filters only seem to inspire new techniques to break through the protections.

Now, the arms race between spam blockers and spam senders is about to escalate with the emergence of a new weapon: generative artificial intelligence. With recent advances in AI made famous by ChatGPT, spammers could have new tools to evade filters, grab people’s attention and convince them to click, buy or give up personal information.

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