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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/10/2025 17:31,
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BillK wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Dark AI is fueling cybercrime — and accelerating the cybersecurity arms race
A look at how criminals are using unrestricted chatbots and how cyber
defenders are fighting back.
Mike Wehner October 24, 2025
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Key Takeaways
“Dark AI” — models and tools fine-tuned for fraud, hacking, and
deception — are giving cybercriminals new ways to automate scams and
launch attacks at scale.
The legal system hasn’t had time to catch up, leaving a gray area
where creating malicious AI tools isn’t illegal — only using them is.
Cybersecurity experts are fighting fire with fire, using AI to detect
threats, patch vulnerabilities, and counter hackers in real time.
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And what count as 'malicious AI tools'?<br>
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Assuming that this is something that <i>needs</i> to be legislated
against sounds like a power-grab to me. Think about how you could
legislate against 'malicious power tools', given a rise in the
incidence of people using various power tools to commit crimes. Make
the possession of an angle-grinder illegal, perhaps?<br>
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There's no such thing as a malicious tool. Using tools maliciously
is, and should be, a crime. Even a guillotine is not malicious.
Using one on someone is.<br>
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AI works for the bad guys as well as the good guys.
BillK</pre>
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Of course. Just like fire, electricity, screwdrivers and every other
technology you can think of.<br>
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Will we never learn that it's actual crimes that need to be
prosecuted, not the ability to commit a crime?
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Ben</pre>
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