The Dark Side Of Artificial Intelligence: AI Spam
Artificial Intelligence isn't really a new phenomen at all. There have been attempts across decades to create such an invention. Frankenstein the Monster alludes to this fascination way back into the past. But with the coming of Internet technologies and their abilities to harness and process vast amounts of (statisitcal) data we have finally managed to create a symstem that attempts to "think" like a human. But we are still way too far in achieving true sentience.
Now, AI has come with a lot of boon for the average digital citizen. The drudgery of:
- Crafting emails,
- Creating content,
- Delivering business decisions,
- Offering customer support,
- Gathering business intelligence to,
- Creating contracts,
...has been partly solved. AI can do much more than the ones listed above. But there is a darkside to it.
Today, AI has become intelligent enough to create spam and defeat the most sophisticated antispam measures. Now this is bad. The days of the spamming farms with real humans doing that may be coming to an end. AI coupled with sophisticated CATCHA farms can:
- Post spam that passes off as written by a human.
- Mimic human mouse movements to deceive antispam technologies like Google's reCATCHA.
- Can pass CAPTCHA challenges.
- Can rotate IP addresses to pass antispam guards etc.
This brings up an interesting scenrario. How will the global digital economy detect this new form of spam? Some antispam technologies are holding on just fine. Google's reCAPTCHA demands a lot more private information to combat spam but with AI spam it can still be defeated.
New entrants into the antispam market now play the "set a thief to catch a thief" angle to AI spam. They have adopted AI technologies to combat spam. This is an interesting development that needs to be watched carefully in the coming years.
All in all, with AI spam making its entry we'll need a new antispam paradigm to solve it.
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