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    <p>A ChatGPT-powered botnet that is luring users on X (formerly Twitter), into visiting fake crypto news sites is just the “tip of the iceberg” with regards to AI-driven disinformation, researchers have warned.</p> 
    <p>The botnet — dubbed ‘Fox8’ due to its links to similarly-named crypto websites — was discovered in May by researchers at Indiana University Bloomington. It comprises at least 1,140 accounts designed to share a mix of original tweets, retweeted posts, and images taken from sites outside of X. </p> 
    <p>It also posts crypto, blockchain, and NFT-related content, engages with influencers, and promotes the suspicious websites.</p> 
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       <p lang="en" dir="ltr">The botnet forms a sense cluster by following each other. They also frequently engage with each other through retweeting/replying.<br><br>4/11 pic.twitter.com/0vQDQpP7Gr</p>— Kevin Yang (@yang3kc) August 2, 2023 
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    <p>However, according to researchers, this sprawling network of click-harvesting bots <strong>may be just the beginning</strong>.</p> 
    <p>Micah Musser, who has&nbsp;studied the potential&nbsp;for AI-driven disinformation, said, “This is the low-hanging fruit.</p> 
    <p>“It is very, very likely that for every one camp<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="AI" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/ai.html">AI</a>gn you find, there are many others doing more sophisticated things.”</p> 
    <p>However, despite the botnet’s size and apparent sophistication, <strong>the techniques used to uncover it were surprisingly simple and pointed to what researchers refer to as its “sloppy” methods</strong>.</p> 
    <p>Researcher K<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="AI" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/ai.html">AI</a>-Cheng Yang tweeted, “How did we find them? By searching “as an <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="AI" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/ai.html">AI</a> language model” on Twitter!”&nbsp;</p> 
    <p>The full “as an AI language model” phrase is produced by ChatGPT when the software is asked to produce text that goes against its own policies. This could include content likely to be used in scams or general disinformation.</p> 
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    <p><em>Read more: Binance says ChatGPT was weaponized to falsely claim it has Communist ties</em></p> 
    <p>Despite Fox8’s obvious flaws, the researchers who uncovered it have warned that, if executed correctly, bots can be far more difficult to spot and used for <strong>far more nefarious purposes than simply driving traffic to fake news sites</strong>.</p> 
    <p>Indeed, as det<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="AI" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/ai.html">AI</a>led by Wired, “A correctly configured <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="ChatGPT" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/chatgpt.html">ChatGPT</a>-based botnet would be difficult to spot, more capable of duping <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="users" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/users.html">users</a>, and more effective at gaming the algorithms used to prioritize content on <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Social Media" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/social-media.html">Social Media</a>.”</p> 
    <p>Professor Filippo Menczer from Indiana University said of the ChatGPT-powered bot, “It tricks both the platform and the users.</p> 
    <p>“That’s exactly why these bots are behaving the way they do.” He also told Wired that <strong>governments looking to leverage disinformation are likely already developing tools like this</strong>.</p> 
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X users manipulated by ChatGPT bots to visit malicious crypto sites

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