AI Model Successfully Used to Power Automated Scam Agents with Costs Lower than One Dollar

Security researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign have successfully used OpenAI’s new voice mode to create fake AI agents that allowed them to scam potential victims with incredibly low costs. 

Everyone is trying to ascertain how the new AI era will affect cybercrime. While some researchers are trying to prove that it’s possible to use the existing AI tools to write new malware or at least to make the existing ones more difficult to detect, there’s another much scarier possi