Making One Key Mistake With ChatGPT Will Put You in Danger

Scammers are exploiting the ChatGPT craze.

ChatGPT may be the wave of the future, but the ecosystem around it has some issues in the present that should gives users a bit of a pause. 

Cybersecurity YouTuber John Hammond is warning users that like to experiment with the new artificial intelligence chat bot. 

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The first threat comes when just downloading the program. Hammond points out that just typing ChatGPT into Google Play in order to download the app brings back dozens of results that "at first glance... just look like extra things that would otherwise just be interacting with ChatGPT that you could do if you were just interacting with ChatGPT."

A fake ChatGPT extension for Google Chrome contained malware that used a backdoor to access Facebook account information -- data which goes for big bucks on the the black market of the internet. 

The malware stole numerous Facebook accounts, according to Hammond, and created bots that made advertisements promoting the extensions. Those ads drove more people to the extension, creating more bots. 

Hammond points out that you should heavily scrutinize any browser extension you install on your device. 

Digital Trends recommends that people who want to use ChatGPT do so from OpenAI's website, or use Bing Chat, the tab that is available on any Bing Search box. 

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