{"id":174593,"date":"2023-10-22T21:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T02:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/inside-the-underground-world-of-black-market-ai-chatbots"},"modified":"2023-10-22T21:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T02:24:05","slug":"inside-the-underground-world-of-black-market-ai-chatbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/inside-the-underground-world-of-black-market-ai-chatbots","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Underground World of Black Market AI Chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-the-underground-world-of-black-market-ai-chatbots.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you wanted to, you could access an \u201cevil\u201d version of <a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/openais-chatgpt-could-never-write-this-article-heres-why\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT<\/a> today\u2014though it\u2019s going to cost you. It also might not necessarily be legal depending on where you live.<\/p>\n<p>However, getting access is a bit tricky. You\u2019ll have to find the right web forums with the right users. One of those users might have a post marketing a private and powerful large language model (LLM). You\u2019ll connect with them on an encrypted messaging service like Telegram where they\u2019ll ask you for a few hundred dollars in cryptocurrency in exchange for the LLM.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have access to it, though, you\u2019ll be able to use it for all the things that ChatGPT or Google\u2019s Bard prohibits you from doing: have conversations about any illicit or ethically dubious topic under the sun, learn how to cook meth or create pipe bombs, or even use it to fuel a cybercriminal enterprise by way of phishing schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you wanted to, you could access an \u201cevil\u201d version of OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT today\u2014though it\u2019s going to cost you. It also might not necessarily be legal depending on where you live. However, getting access is a bit tricky. You\u2019ll have to find the right web forums with the right users. One of those users might [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,34,1625,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}