"ChatGPT Helps or Hurts our Cybersecurity?"
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Purdue University, Saurabh Bagchi, has provided insights into ChatGPT's implications for online security and privacy. ChatGPT is already being used to launch security attacks, such as phishing schemes. There are concerns that when this technology reaches full maturity, it will be capable of generating undetectable attacks, and defenders will constantly be fighting these fires. The fear is that it will generate sophisticated attacks automatically, but within this specialized field of automatic attack generation, the dark forces have had access to sophisticated tools for at least a decade. It is possible that ChatGPT will become a highly sophisticated weapon, but it will not represent a completely new threat vector. According to Bagchi, security researchers and practitioners in computer security have devised sophisticated defenses that have thwarted most of these attacks. ChatGPT is also a classic example of dual-use technology, as defenders are expected to use it to expand their defense arsenal. This article continues to discuss Bagchi's insights on ChatGPT's implications for security and privacy in the online world.