Cybercriminals Are Complaining About AI Slop Flooding Their Forums
The complaint sounds familiar. “I’m disappointed that you are working to incorporate AI garbage into the site,” one annoyed person, posting anonymously, said in an online message. “No-one is asking for this—we want you to improve the site, stop charging for new features.”
Only, this is not a regular internet user moaning about AI beingforced intotheir favorite app. Instead, they are complaining about a cybercrime forum’s plans to introduce more generative AI. Like millions of others, scammers, grifters, and low-level hackers are getting annoyed about AI encroaching into their lives and the rise of low-quality AI slop being posted in their online communities.
“People don’t like it,” says Ben Collier, a security researcher and senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. As part of a recent study into howlow-level cybercriminals are using AI, Collier and fellow researchers spotted an increasing pushback over the use of generative...
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