A.I. adds to security risk?

From WSJ:
A.I. chatbots like ChatGPT are likely todrive an increase in the use and effectiveness of online fraud tools such asphishing and spear-phishing messages.

In fact, it could already be happening. Phishing attacksaround the world grew almost 50% in 2022 from a year earlier, accordingto Zscaler, a cloud-security provider. And, some experts say, artificial-intelligence software that makes phishing messages sound more believable are part of the problem. AI reduces or eliminates language barriers and grammatical mistakes, helping scammers impersonate a target’s colleagues, friends or relatives.

This new era is going to be worse than what we had before,” says Meredith Broussard, research director at the New York University Alliance for Public Interest Technology. “And what we had before was really, really bad.”