"Crypto Botnet on X Is Powered by ChatGPT"

In May of this year, researchers at Indiana University Bloomington discovered a ChatGPT-powered botnet operating on X, formerly known as Twitter. The researchers named the botnet Fox8 due to its connection to cryptocurrency websites with variations of the same name. According to the researchers, it consisted of 1,140 accounts, many of which appeared to use ChatGPT to compose and respond to social media posts. The auto-generated content seemed designed to entice unsuspecting humans to click on links leading to cryptocurrency-hyping websites. The researchers discovered the botnet by searching the platform for the phrase "As an AI language model...", which ChatGPT sometimes uses in response to prompts on sensitive topics. Then they manually examined accounts to determine which ones appeared to be operated by bots. This article continues to discuss findings and observations regarding the ChatGPT-powered botnet.

Ars Technica reports "Crypto Botnet on X Is Powered by ChatGPT"