The Dark Web's Response to the AI Revolution: An Addictive Digital Drug

The dark web is showing significant interest in the AI revolution, with threat actors discussing the potential uses of language models for cybercrime activities such as identifying 0-day exploits and crafting spear-phishing emails. Open source AI models, in particular, are attractive to threat actors as they have not undergone reinforcement learning to prevent risky or illegal answers. Threat exposure management firm Flare has identified over 200,000 OpenAI credentials being sold on the dark web. The commodification of cybercrime and the increasing capabilities of AI language models are colliding, leading to concerns about the potential misuse of these models for cybercriminal activities.