AI is Supercharging EU Crime

[Stephen3141]

https://apnews.com/article/europe-crime-europol-ai-security-cyber-attack-846847536f6feb2bbb423943fd96e1f1

As I have multiple times warned, the new "AI" tools have the potential
to be used to automate the crime cycles of huge crime syndicates,
as well as individual criminals.

The slackness of Congress to keep up with this technology, with regulation,
will make the effect even worse in America.

The billionaires who own the big social media networks, don't want to be
regulated. BUT, their influence also puts American citizens at greater risk of
being fleeced by the new Generative AI tools.

 

[JustaPewFiller]

For better or for worse, AI is the future of cyber-crime and cybersecurity both.

 

[FireDragon76]

https://apnews.com/article/europe-crime-europol-ai-security-cyber-attack-846847536f6feb2bbb423943fd96e1f1

As I have multiple times warned, the new "AI" tools have the potential
to be used to automate the crime cycles of huge crime syndicates,
as well as individual criminals.

The slackness of Congress to keep up with this technology, with regulation,
will make the effect even worse in America.

The billionaires who own the big social media networks, don't want to be
regulated. BUT, their influence also puts American citizens at greater risk of
being fleeced by the new Generative AI tools.

Most of the AI that would be used in crime is probably open source or something similar. Not large language models from big tech companies. Using an LLM from one of the major companies requires registration to communicate with an API, something criminals wouldn't be interested in.

 

[JustaPewFiller]

Most of the AI that would be used in crime is probably open source or something similar. Not large language models from big tech companies. Using an LLM from one of the major companies requires registration to communicate with an API, something criminals wouldn't be interested in.

Well - for the run-of-the-mill guy in his parent's basement, sure.

BUT -

There is big money in cyber-crime. Roughly 8 trillion a year.

Annual revenue of cyber crime is 13 times bigger than Walmart’s

Hackers are collectively making more money than Walmart every year, according to a new report.

www.cyberdaily.au

That is big money that can afford smart people to figure out how to make their own tools or use existing ones for bad ends.

In addition, you have the state sponsored cyber-criminals.

Nation-State Cyber Actors | Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA

www.cisa.gov

China in particular has been big in the AI field. Would China use their AI powers for evil? They already use their tech to sponsor cyber-crime. AI is just the next logical step in that for them.

Bottom line, they'll make their own AI's or figure out how to utilize existing ones.

 

[linux.poet]

Most of the AI that would be used in crime is probably open source or something similar.

They can probably just use Deepseek and modify it to run it locally. (Also China doesn't care about U.S. crime or EU crime, so even if they were sending their keystrokes to China with their criminal A.I., the investigators would have to extradite the data to get it and China may not hand it over.)

If you're interested, Fireship on YouTube has a lot of informative videos, I just don't trust myself to check videos for profanity good enough to post them here.