How a Russian spyware company ‘hacked’ ChatGPT, turned it to spy on internet users

A Russian spying company that has an expertise in online hacking and spying was able to bypass OpenAI’s ChatGPT turn it into a spyware for spying on people who use the internet. The spying company was involved in sentiment analysis and hacking

In a recent investigative report, Forbes revealed that Social Links, a Russian spyware company previously banned from Meta’s platforms for alleged surveillance activities, has co-opted ChatGPT for spying on people using the internet.

This unsettling revelation of ChatGPT which involves collecting and analyzing social media data to gauge users’ sentiments, adds yet another controversial dimension to ChatGPT’s use cases.

Presenting its unconventional utilization of ChatGPT at a security conference in Paris, Social Links showcased the chatbot’s proficiency in text summarization and analysis. By feeding data, obtained through its proprietary tool, related to online discussions about a recent controversy in Spain, the company demonstrated how ChatGPT could quickly process and categorize sentiments as positive, negative, or neutral. The results were then presented using an interactive graph.

Privacy advocates, however, find this development deeply troubling. Beyond the immediate concerns raised by this specific case, there is a broader worry about the potential for AI to amplify the capabilities of the surveillance industry.

Rory Mir, Associate Director of Community Organizing at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, expressed apprehension that AI could enable law enforcement to expand surveillance efforts, allowing smaller teams to monitor larger groups more efficiently.

Mir highlighted the existing practice of police agencies using fake…