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I expect that with AI, we'll be less able to rely on the heuristic of bad grammar to easily detect phishing. That one flaw gave the phishers away so often, and
by kagevf 2y ago
I expect that with AI, we'll be less able to rely on the heuristic of bad grammar to easily detect phishing. That one flaw gave the phishers away so often, and made it so obvious ...
- snowfield 2y agoIt goes the other way now, overly verbose responses and perfect grammar sets off the warning bells.
- pzo 2y agoScammers can probably easy adapt adding some random misspellings after inference
- irjustin 2y agoThey'll adapt. You can easily ask chat4 to make it sound "less formal" or "more teenager"
- IanCal 2y agoAbsolutely. I was talking to a teacher and they said the translations were easy to spot because they were so good, far beyond what the kid was normally doing. I then showed them the same kind of prompt plus something like "write this as an X year old French student with only moderate grasp of ..." and it was far more plausible. I noticed how well it understands general parlance after it created marketing style copy for me and I told it to sound "less wanky" and it made it much more to the point.
- salviati 2y agoThe bad grammar is on purpose. I know of two possible reasons: * Bayesian poisoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning * Weeding out poor mark candidates https://josephsteinberg.com/why-scammers-make-spelling-and-grammar-mistakes/ https://josephsteinberg.com/why-scammers-make-spelling-and-g...
- jstummbillig 2y agoI suspect it's a compromise. Entertaining a target with high literacy skills is more work. If you have AI that is excellent at communication, there goes one reason to aim low.
- CM30 2y agoI see this a lot, but it seems hard to verify. Has a scammer actually ever come out and say they deliberately use poor grammar? Would be interesting to compare scam emails/messages from scammers based in the US/UK/Australia with those in India or Nigeria, and see if the pattern holds up for both.
- justsomehnguy 2y ago> I see this a lot, but it seems hard to verify. Easy. As you say all you need to do is to compare and as I occasionally have a glimpse of the spam for some non-English language with a non-Latin script - it's the same.