How to detect AI-Generated scams.
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Artifical Intelligence-generated scams is getting serious and also tricky. Knowing if the content uploaded on the internet is legitimate or not is now getting impossible and scammers often delete the content if they have finally catched a victim and create another one all thanks to AI. The twist of AI content and human content is common, AI can even develop a content and post online so is not now for AI-generated bots to hack your online account without being caught.
Fortunately, you can detect a AI-generated content. Since to detect AI scammers with common sense is difficult as they use advanced techniques and tactics for the content to be real. These tips can help you to identify and detect those scammers. Combining multiple techniques and tactics helps you to know your chances to know the scammer. Below are the steps you can take to detect the content.
1. Analysing the Language:
If it contains unnatural syntaxes, same use of phrases and excess formality, it might be AI-generated. Ensure you check the language they used for their communication.
Use NLTK and spaCy in Python for analysis and scanning of anomalies. These particular NLPs are the recommended libraries for scanning AI-Generated contents.
2. Analysing the IP address:
Scammers often uses VPNs or proxies to perform their works which indicates their suspicious behavior. Analyze the IP address to know where the user is communicating from.
3. Image Verification:
Use reverse image search tools. AI scammers often uses a picture of someone or somewhere which they found in the other side of internet.
4. Send Specific Messages:
Sending specific messages topics like breaking news or what is happening in your local area will know if the user is genuine or not. A genuine user will respond accordingly while AI-generated might be off-topic or not with understanding reply.
5. Typos and Errors:
AI text might have some typos and errors compared to human generated text. Look for unpolished text to analyze if is legitimate or not.
6. Delay in response:
AI scammers use pre-generated responses to reply to texts that leads into delays on exchanging messages due to generation of messages AI performs. If this scenario occurs for a long period of time, it could be a scam alert.
7. Analyze The Behavior Of The User:
Monitor the response pattern, changes of discussion, way of reaction, how often he comes up online and offline, and the flow of the conversation. If there is changes towards it, or it becomes formal or informal, this might involve AI.
8. Beware Of Sudden Requests:
Any requests involving your personal or financial information do not disclose it. Especially if the conversation takes out of context. This is the period whereby the scammer wants to get what he really wanted.
9. Analysing The Profile:
Verify the user's profile and check for any suspicious personal details, usernames, artificial looking profile pictures and other information that seem ingenuine. Check for unpolished information in their profile page like employment history, date of birth, education, location etc.
10. Use AI Detection Tools:
AI powered tools, APIs and other special tools are available today to help you to detect if the content or the user is AI-generated. I recommend you to use OpenAI's "davinci" model. It can be used to know AI-generated content and respones quickly if it contains unnatural text.
This is a example of "davinci" tool that you could use in Python.
import openai
openai.api_key = 'your_api_key'
def is_ai_generated(text):
response = openai.Completion.create(
engine="davinci",
prompt=text,
max_tokens=5 # Limit the response to a short length for analysis
)
generated_text = response.choices[0].text.strip()
return generated_text == text
user_input = "Hello, how are you?"
if is_ai_generated(user_input):
print("This might be AI-generated.")
else:
print("This seems to be human-generated.")
Python developers know how to use the code and verify the content or user. Contact a developer near you to teach you how to use the code and how to verify AI-generated content.
NB: These tips above are just the basic facts you need to know if you are suspecting any user or any content. Learning a programming language and learning cybersecurity skills are recommended for you to trace down AI-generated scammers or any online fraudster that comes across your way. Ensure you be careful with the websites you click, rhe URLs you visit, the people you meet online, the purchases you make on the web, and the information other people disclose to you online.
It is very important for you to know your online safety so that you won't victim to those web pirates that uses AI as a bait. Know your instincts and Make sure you think twice before you enter into that risk of entering into that website and get yourself scammed by the pirates. Invest your money on verified investment platforms, chat with real people in verified social media platforms and make safe transactions in real banks.
Always to remain watchful on those websites and do not allow others to fall victim. Your online safety is also everyone safety. Always enlighten others and tell them about the AI scam as they might also know some information about it. Stay up-to-date about new AI-generated scams and how they might occur anytime in the future. Remember that the world is changing gradually with new features so as AI so it is very important for you to change your view and knowledge in order for you not fall victim.
New posts and the latest updates on AI-generated scam will be made in the future.
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