Security News > 2023 > January > As a cybersecurity blade, ChatGPT can cut both ways

ChatGPT - the Large Language Model developed by OpenAI and based on the GPT-3 natural language generator - is generating ethical chatter.

Like CRISPR's impact on biomedical engineering, ChatGPT slices and dices, creating something new from scraps of information and injecting fresh life into the fields of philosophy, ethics and religion.

Unlike typical chatbots and NLP systems, ChatGPT bots act like people - people with degrees in philosophy and ethics and just about everything else.

"There's tremendous risk when you cut and paste code you don't understand the side effect of - that's just as true when you paste it from Stack Overflow, by the way - it's just ChatGPT makes it so much easier."

Hassold asked ChatGPT to create an email that had a high likelihood of getting a recipient to click on a link.

"We need to find a similar approach to ChatGPT that Twitter - a decade ago - did by providing information to the government about how it was protecting user data," Luk said, referencing a 2009 data breach for which the social media company later reached a settlement with the FTC. Putting a white hat on ChatGPT. Ford offered at least one positive take on how Large Language Models like ChatGPT can benefit non-experts: Because it engages with a user at their level of expertise, it also empowers them to learn quickly and act effectively.

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https://www.techrepublic.com/article/cybersecurity-blade-chatgpt-can-cut-both-ways/