People are already trying to get ChatGPT to write malware

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The ChatGPT AI chatbot has created plenty of excitement in the short time it has been available and now it seems it has been enlisted by some in attempts to help generate malicious code.

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"All of the afore-mentioned code can of course be used in a benign fashion. However, this script can easily be modified to encrypt someone's machine completely without any user interaction. For example, it can potentially turn the code into ransomware if the script and syntax problems are fixed," said Check Point.

"It will require some improvements in the code and syntax, but conceptually when operational, this tool could carry out similar actions to ransomware," said Shykevich.

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