
As global tech firms scramble to offer rival products to ChatGPT, the much-talked-about chatbot launched by San Francisco-based tech start-up OpenAI, Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) and security experts are warning that the unchecked growth of such services raises cybersecurity concerns.
Hackers and online scam groups have been using ChatGPT, which is capable of giving humanlike responses to complex questions, to write malicious code that could be used in spam and phishing emails, according to a representative at Beijing-based online security firm Huorong.