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This is the best summary I could come up with:
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Case in point, IBM researchers posted an internal study that details how they unleashed a ChatGPT-generated phishing email on a real healthcare company to see if it could fool people as effectively as a human-penned one.
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"Humans may have narrowly won this match, but AI is constantly improving," said IBM hacker Stephanie Carruthers wrote of the work.
"As technology advances, we can only expect AI to become more sophisticated and potentially even outperform humans one day."
Given these results and AI chatbots rapidly improving, what can individuals do against this inbox onslaught?
IBM's suggestions ranged from common sense, like calling the purported sender if something looks suspicious, to anemic, like looking out for "longer emails," which they said are "often a hallmark of AI-generated text."
The bottom line, though, is just to use your common sense — and to prepare yourself for an internet that looks set to be rapidly overrun with AI-generated content, malicious or otherwise.
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