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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Nathaniel Mott

Report claims 'the era of AI hacking has arrived' — good and bad actors leveraging AI in cybersecurity arms race

AI.

The future of cybersecurity is essentially a digital version of "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots" that pits offensive- and defensive-minded AI against each other—or at least that's the impression given by an NBC report on how the industry views AI.

"In recent months, hackers of seemingly every stripe — cybercriminals, spies, researchers and corporate defenders alike — have started including AI tools into their work," the report said. "LLMs, like ChatGPT, are still error-prone. But they have become remarkably adept at processing language instructions and at translating plain language into computer code, or identifying and summarizing documents."

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