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International Business Times
International Business Times
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'Vibe Hacking' Puts Chatbots To Work For Cybercriminals

OpenAI in June revealed a case of ChatGPT assisting a user in developing malicious software (Credit: AFP)

The potential abuse of consumer AI tools is raising concerns, with budding cybercriminals apparently able to trick coding chatbots into giving them a leg-up in producing malicious programmes.

So-called "vibe hacking" -- a twist on the more positive "vibe coding" that generative AI tools supposedly enable those without extensive expertise to achieve -- marks "a concerning evolution in AI-assisted cybercrime" according to American company Anthropic.

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