The underground market for large illicit language models is lucrative, said academic researchers who called for better safeguards against artificial intelligence misuse. Academics at the Indiana University Bloomington[1] identified 212 malicious LLMs on underground marketplaces from April through September 2024. The financial benefit for the threat actor behind one of them, WormGPT, is calculated at US$28,000 over two months, underscoring the allure for harmful agents to break artificial intel
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Back in 1975, singer-songwriter Barry Manilow wrote and sang a song, I Write the Songs. Forty-eight years later, Barry might be out of a job with AI now writing songs. Universal Music https://www.universalmusic.com sued AI startup Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com over “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics,” per a filing in a Tennessee federal court in October 2023. One example from the lawsuit: When a user asks Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude about the lyr
