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 I wish I didn't auto delete my toots sometimes, as I predicted this about 6 months ago...

People are injecting malware responses into Microsoft's AI, so now when you ask it questions it is serving people malware downloads. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bing-chat-responses-infiltrated-by-ads-pushing-malware/

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 From that thread (RIP), expect nation states, SEO spammers and more to be filling generative AI with crap to install malware, influence policy documents, research etc etc.  

It's absolutely the next stage of enshittification (sorry, I mean increasing shareholder value) where everybody can pretend to shocked it happened in two years. 
 @f7d0478e Microsoft has always been ahead of the game with security. First to give us email viruses, first to give us self replicating sql viruses, and now the first AI virus. Innovation! 
 @f7d0478e tech bros consider the ways that adversarial parties could absue the technology before rushing it to market challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)