Nation-state hackers including Russian military intelligence and hackers backed by China have used OpenAI large language models for research and to craft phishing emails, the artificial intelligence company disclosed Tuesday in conjunction with major financial backer Microsoft.
Threat actors linked to Iran and North Korea also used GPT-4, OpenAI said. Nation-state hackers primarily used the chatbot to query open-source information, such as satellite communication protocols, and to translate content into victims’ local languages, find coding errors and run basic coding tasks.