AI has ushered in a new kind of hacker

AI is offering hackers new openings.

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• Hackers are using new AI models to infiltrate companies with old tricks.
• Open-source models are gaining popularity, but raise the bar for cybersecurity.
• Researchers scoured Hugging Face for malicious models and found hundreds.

AI doomsayers continue to worry about the technology's potential to bring about societal collapse. But the most likely scenario for now is that small-time hackers will have a field day.