The secret lay in using AI to personalize the tweets to the target, automatically. The implications of this experiment are huge. Seriously. If this, relatively primitive model was able multiply phishing success by a factor of up to x6, then what can we expect when the AI’s writing is indistinguishable from humans’?
Of course, ML can also be used to counteract this weapon. You can design an AI to detect when text is written by AI… a sort of AI arms race.
To learn the details on how to create an intelligence Twitter phishing bot, work along the course Machine Learning for Red Team Hackers.
Reviews
Reviews make or break a product. To a customer, it’s scary to purchase a product with no reviews. How can she know it won’t arrive malfunctioning or that she’ll be able to reach someone to get help or a refund? For that reason, reviews help us buyers feel more secure about our purchase. However, it’s a sad reality that many reviews are paid or traded. How many, you might wonder… i.e., what fraction? According to brightlocal,
61% of electronics reviews on Amazon are fake
Cringy, right? But what can you do. Now I’m here to tell you what else is going on. As you’ve seen above, AI can now generate really convincing text. And that means that it can generate really convincing reviews. To be honest, I’ve found that sometimes human reviews look more like AI, while AI reviews look more human.
Conversely, however, AI is also able to detect fake reviews. In Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook, I show you how to train a neural network to produce fake reviews, as well as how to detect fake news.
What Now
Now you know what’s going on with text DeepFakes. The next question is what to do about it. Several things. First, don’t believe everything you read. Just because you see some text next to a picture of a person with an online history, doesn’t mean it’s real! Recall Oliver Taylor from Part 1. Tell this also to your close ones, since they probably know less than you do about DeepFake technology.
Secondly, it’s obvious that DeepFakes are going to be critical in the future economy. DeepFake will be used in book and newspaper editing, scams will only increase their use of DeepFake, and forums will be moderated by bots. So if you want to be ahead of the curve, on the frontier of the future economy and cybersecurity, pick up a copy of the Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook and enroll in Machine Learning for Red Team Hackers to learn how to use AI to generate convincing text, as well as detect when it is generated by AI.