Scammers Used ChatGPT to Unleash a Crypto Botnet on X (Twitter)

Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington discovered a botnet of 1,140 X accounts, which they named Fox8, that used ChatGPT to write posts promoting cryptocurrency websites. The researchers found it by searching for the phrase "As an AI language model," a response ChatGPT sometimes produces, and then manually identifying bot-operated accounts. Filippo Menczer, a Bloomington professor who worked on the research with Kai-Cheng Yang, says such bots may be more widespread and harder to detect, and that the botnet was apparently taken down after the team published its paper in July.