👀 Midjourney Malware
Plus the new Perplexity...
Jelani Abdus-Salaam
April 09, 2024
Welcome back, AI’ers!
Tuesday’s Top Story: Cybercriminals are operating Facebook pages impersonating popular AI tools like Midjourney, ChatGPT, and Google Bard to distribute malware that steals sensitive user data.
As AI tech continues to thrive, so do the scams.
Here’s What’s On The Menu For Today
🤖 Google’s New Patent
✨ Watch Out For Midjourney Malware
📰 News Hot Off The Press
💰️ Newly Added AI Tools
TOOL HIGHLIGHT
TODAY’S FEATURED TOOL
🖥️ Korl
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AI IN THE NEWS
OpenAI removes the message limit on ChatGPT's GPT-4 but somehow made it worse
OpenAI has changed the usage limit policy for its ChatGPT service, replacing the fixed limit of 40 messages per 3 hours with a more vague "Usage limits may apply," which has led to confusion and frustration among users.
📫️ The Details:
OpenAI has removed the fixed limit of 40 messages per 3 hours for ChatGPT's GPT-4 model, replacing it with a more ambiguous "Usage limits may apply" statement.
Many users have reported hitting the usage cap earlier than expected, with some only able to send 17-27 messages before reaching the limit.
The change has led to mixed reactions, with some users initially glad about removing the fixed limit but later disappointed to find the new limits were even more restrictive.
Many ChatGPT users have been frustrated by OpenAI's lack of clear communication about the changes to the usage limits and the unpredictable nature of the new limits. This could drive some users to explore alternative platforms that offer more transparency and flexibility.
This fake Midjourney Facebook page tried to push malware on over a million people…
Cybercriminals are operating Facebook pages impersonating popular AI tools like Midjourney, ChatGPT, and Google Bard to distribute malware that steals sensitive user data.
📫️ The details:
Cybercriminals have taken over Facebook pages with over 1 million subscribers and rebranded them to impersonate AI tools like Midjourney, tricking users into downloading malware.
The malware, such as the Rilide infostealer, is disguised as a downloadable version of the AI tool and steals data like browser cookies, passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and more.
The majority of victims were men aged 25-55 located in Europe, particularly in countries like Germany, Poland, Italy, and France.
These fake Facebook pages use tactics like paid advertising, fake positive comments, and mixing legitimate links to appear credible and bypass user suspicion.
Tech giants are on a billion-dollar shopping spree for AI training data…
Tech giants are aggressively harvesting vast amounts of data to feed their artificial intelligence algorithms, raising concerns over privacy, ethics, and the legal boundaries of data collection.
📫️ The details:
Tech companies like Google, Meta, and OpenAI are accumulating enormous volumes of digital data through various means, including collecting user data and generating synthetic data to train their AI models.
This data-collection behavior is being criticized as "disfigured" and "coarsening the typical methodological oath", as companies push the boundaries of what is legally and ethically permissible.2
The explosion of data needed to drive AI innovation has led to calls for society leaders to actively participate in developing clear rules and standards around data usage and privacy.
The tech industry's insatiable appetite for data to power AI is creating a complex web of legal, ethical, and privacy concerns that must be addressed. As AI capabilities advance, the responsible and transparent use of data will be crucial to maintaining public trust.
QUICK BITS
Investors in Talks to Help Elon Musk’s xAI Raise $3 Billion, Adding to Industry Arms Race (link)
AI startups dominate Enterprise Tech list (link)
Canada's Trudeau announces package of AI investment measures (link)
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon compares AI’s potential impact to electricity and the steam engine and says the tech could ‘augment virtually every job’ (link)
How AI could explode the economy (link)
Google is seeking to patent a system for matching unstructured text to “clinical ontologies (link)
AI ON SOCIAL
FROM THE WEB
✨ The New Perplexity?
We keep saying that Open Source AI tools are the future. Today, another search engine tool powered by AI dropped, dubbed Morph.
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