The AI-enabled chatbot that’s been wowing the tech community can also be manipulated to help cybercriminals perfect their attack strategies.

Why it matters: The arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool last month could allow scammers behind email and text-based phishing attacks, as well as malware groups, to speed up the development of their schemes.

• Several cybersecurity researchers have been able to get the AI-enabled text generator to write phishing emails or even malicious code for them in recent weeks.