New. Scoopy. By me. "WormGPT, a private new chatbot service advertised as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help write malicious software without all the pesky prohibitions on such activity enforced by the likes of #ChatGPT and Google Bard, has started adding restrictions of its own on how the service can be used. Faced with customers trying to use WormGPT to create ransomware and phishing scams, the 23-year-old Portuguese programmer who created the project now says his service is slowly morphing into “a more controlled environment.” "The large language models (LLMs) made by ChatGPT parent #OpenAI or Google or Microsoft all have various safety measures designed to prevent people from abusing them for nefarious purposes — such as creating malware or hate speech. In contrast, WormGPT has promoted itself as a new, uncensored LLM that was created specifically for cybercrime activities."

Meet the Brains Behind the Malware-Friendly AI Chat Service ‘WormGPT’ – Krebs on Security

#wormgpt, #malware #chatgpt

Many have asked why I'm not going to DEFCON this year. In a word: Contractors. Don't let them in your house, because they'll never ever really leave. I *could* go to Vegash and leave Mrs. K and Special K (our GSD, not her real name) alone for a few days with the contractors. I think that would probably use up a lot of, er...points. But to me, leaving your home with contractors inside is a bit like walking away from a Microsoft Windows machine while it's rebooting after applying updates: You're just asking for trouble.

Two things that make me cray-cray: 1) people who confuse kindness and mercy with weakness; 2) people who confuse values and beliefs with strongly-held (and usually very tenuous) personal convictions about nearly everything under the Sun. Someone close to me once said the secret to happiness is to lower your expectations, or to limit the number of things you feel really strongly about. I don't completely subscribe to this point of view. To me happiness has more to do with severely limiting the number of things I consider myself an expert on, and even then trying really damn hard to pretend I don't know anything about those subjects all day long.