---
title: ChatGPT tool could be abused by scammers and hackers
metaTitle: "ChatGPT Tool Could Be Abused by Scammers"
slug: chatgpt-tool-could-be-abused-by-scammers
date: "2023-12-06T09:00:00-06:00"
image:
  src: "https://cdn.securelogix.dev/slx/images/chatgpt-tool-could-be-abused-by-scammers.webp"
sourcePublisher:
  name: BBC
  url: www.bbc.com
sourceArticle:
  url: "https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67614065"
tags: [AI, Smishing]
status: published
---

## A ChatGPT feature allowing users to easily build their own artificial-intelligence assistants can be used to create tools for cyber-crime, a BBC News investigation has revealed.

OpenAI launched it last month, so users could build customized versions of ChatGPT “for almost anything”.

Now, BBC News has used it to create a generative pre-trained transformer that crafts convincing emails, texts and social-media posts for scams and hacks.

It follows warnings about AI tools.

BBC News signed up for the paid version of ChatGPT, at £20 a month, created a private bespoke AI bot called Crafty Emails and told it to write text using “techniques to make people click on links or and download things sent to them”...