LLMMedium
ChatGPT Abused to Develop Malicious Softwares
- Occurred
- Dec 21, 2022
- Published
- Apr 13, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
OpenAI's ChatGPT was reportedly abused by cyber criminals including ones with no or low levels of coding or development skills to develop malware, ransomware, and other malicious softwares.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- internet users
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: ChatGPT misuse for malware development is an LLM safety incident with notable but not catastrophic harm.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8