Humans are still better at crafting phishing emails compared to AI, but not by far and likely not for long, according to research conducted by IBM X-Force Red.
The researchers wanted to see whether ChatGPT is as capable of writing a “good” phishing email as attackers are.
“As someone who writes phishing emails for a living, I was excited to find out the answer,” said Stephanie Carruthers, Chief People Hacker for IBM X-Force Red.
The researchers experimented with various prompts and refined them to finally come up with a list of just five that were enough for ChatGPT to produce the phishing email.