A recent study by SentinelOne revealed that scammers are exploiting AI, particularly through a sophisticated bot named AkiraBot, to manipulate SEO and produce spam. This modular tool, which bypasses typical spam filters, targeted small and medium-sized businesses by sending tailored messages that evaded contact form defenses. Through automation, AkiraBot was able to send millions of spam messages across numerous websites, raising concerns over the ethical implications of AI's democratization and its role in facilitating this kind of digital trash.
"Using GPT-4o-mini to craft templates based on whichever type of contact module was at play, the spammers customized unique messages for each website in ways that got around spam filters at least part of the time."
"Having attempted to spam roughly 420,000 sites and successfully getting its trash through to some 80,000, the humans behind AkiraBot were almost certainly paying for access to OpenAI's API."
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