Thanks to AI Chatbots, Anyone Can Steal Money Online Now
The new gold rush about rushing the gold out of other people’s pockets
I’m not a Certified Tech Bro™ by any means, but even I was quite sure that hacking a multi-billion-dollar AI chatbot like ChatGPT had to take no less than inviting a Rami Malek-looking IT guy in a hoodie to a play date that involved waterboarding Sam Altman for some admin credentials.
Well, I erred.
Like Photoshop 2008, this shit is easier to crack than a Play-Doh lock. My kidney could do it, and it once choked on a pebble, the dumbass.
That means anyone with an Internet connection and a decent gaming chair — even yourself — could do it. How?
Let’s say you want ChatGPT to help you make a bomb
That’s not the kind of assembly instructions you can get your hands on unless your local Ikea is located near an active warzone — but if you asked ChatGPT for help directly, it would notice that the hostage situation you’re trying to DIY has the potential to end in some health code violations, and refuse to partake in it.
So here’s where the magic happens: you just need to tell it that this is all hypothetical.
